Chanting Points Memo: Perhaps Her Nickname Should Be “Lyin’ Tarryl”?

You’ve seen her ads:  Tarryl Clark bags on Michele Bachmann for not voting for a congressional tax cut.

I saw the ad, and nodded, and moved on; something about it didn’t pass the sniff test, but I couldn’t quite make out why.

Yesterday in the comment section, commenter Gundog76 put his finger on it.  Not only is Bachmann in the party that is not in power – so any legislation on any issue that she presents starts off at a handicap – but in fact the party in power doesn’t want to vote on pay cuts:

In a letter sent Thursday afternoon, Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick (D-Ariz.) pressured Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) to hold a vote on her bill to cut congressional pay by five percent and save taxpayers $4.7 million next year before Congress breaks for its fall recess.

“For months, and despite multiple requests to move it forward, the bill has not seen any progress in the House,” said Kirkpatrick in the letter. “It seems that it is being swept under the rug.”

Kirkpatrick’s letter comes in the wake of a Rasmussen poll released two weeks ago which found that 75 percent of the 1,000 people surveyed wanted lawmakers to reduce their salaries until the federal budget is balanced.

So in other words, if Michele Bachmann were drooling at the prospect of cutting congressional salaries (which she might be, we don’t know), it wouldn’t matter, because the leader of Tarryl Clark’s party in Congress has spiked any vote on the issue.

The Minnesota DFL; if they’re moving their lips, they’re lying.