Stretching the Facts

A video of Rep. Paul Kanjorski recently surfaced from a town hall meeting. In the video, Kanjorski discusses the Democrats campaign promises to end the Iraq War and misleading voters into believing this could actually happen when everyone knew it wasn't possible. He stated:

"I'll tell you my impression. We really in this last election, when I say we...the democrats, I think pushed it as far as we can to the end of the fleet, didn't say it, but we implied it. That if we won the Congressional elections, we could stop the war. Now anybody was a good student of Government would know that wasn't true. But you know, the temptation to want to win back the Congress, we sort of stretched the facts...and people ate it up."

Lou Barletta took issue with Kanjorski's comments saying:

"He has indicted himself and the entire Democratic Party by admitting to purposely deceive the American people in order to take control of Congress."