Jon Kyl (GOP Senator): a typical example of Republican flip-flop doublespeak out-and-out LIES

And then, after making blatantly false statements to the world (and, rightly, being publicly ridiculed for it), does a Republican take responsibility and apologize for it?  Of course not!  The Republican way is to always...always...ALWAYS...blame someone else!  They complain about the crushing national debt and lay it all at Obama's feet, conveniently "forgetting" the role played by Cheney/Bush in starting the Iraq war on lies and all their other insane expenses that took a budget surplus (handed to them by the Democrat President Clinton)  and turned it into a horrendous, gigantic deficit. Will they admit that it was their own party leaders who created the deficit in the first place? NEVER! In their blind-eyed vision, it is all someone else's fault.  Jon Kyl, true to the "'don't-blame-me" GOP guidelines set down for all Republicans, follows their "rules" to perfection.  No matter that his false statement on the floor of the Senate was meant to destroy an excellent health-care-giving organization. No matter that its destruction would leave millions of women without any kind of health care. No matter that there are many people in our country ignorant and stupid enough to believe his outrageous lie.  He will not apologize -- and makes a meager attempt to "clarify."

By Jason Linkins

Last week, Senator Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) received a fusillade of criticism when he took to the Senate floor to declare that abortion was "well over 90 percent of what Planned Parenthood does." That criticism soon turned to ridicule after his office responded by releasing a statement that said that "his remark was not intended to be a factual statement." Everyone has been making fun of him on Twitter and on late night comedy shows, and it really hurt his feelings. So now, Kyl is "clarifying" himself once again.

Asked if he regretted the flap, Kyl said Thursday: "I misspoke when I said what I said on the floor - and I said so."

But what about the claim that it was "not intended to be a factual statement" when Kyl said 90 percent of Planned Parenthood's services were abortion related?

"That was not me - that was my press person," he said.

Got it. See, when Jon Kyl said a bunch of things that were not true, he obviously had some sort of malfunction in the speech center of his brain. Clearly, what he meant to say was "Three percent of Planned Parenthood's activities are related to abortion, and now that I'm saying this out loud, I forget why I was making such a big deal about it in the first place, so I yield the floor." But an episode of some kind of dysphasia caused him to form entirely different syllables, so while it looked to the world like he was absolutely speaking with perfect clarity of voice and thought, it was all really just a mangled mistake. That observers couldn't see that he was misspeaking is just a terrible coincidence.

Oh, and then some idiot -- "my press person" -- said some even dumber things to CNN, but why was anyone in the news taking the things Jon Kyl's "press person" says seriously, as if his "press person" was somehow authorized to speak to the press, on Jon Kyl's behalf?

So, really, this was everyone else's fault.