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Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., did something very rare on Monday. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)
A US lawmaker did something fascinating — and rare — on Monday afternoon. His office issued a statement critical of a political foe, which is not fascinating nor rare. But it contained none of the sharp language or name calling of the last five or so years. And that made it both fascinating and rare.
The statement came from Senate Budget Committee Ranking Member Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., and it contained only a few lines of text.
“The Office of Management and Budget recently announced that President Obama’s FY 2015 budget would be delivered to Congress on March 4, just over one month past the statutory deadline (which requires the president’s budget to be submitted by the first Monday in February),” the Sessions statement said. “This will be the 18th occasion that the administration has missed an in-law budget deadline.”
Just the facts, ma’am. The statement then points recipients to a chart detailing all 18 times the “hope and change” administration delivered a kind of change its allies and foes didn’t expect. Click here to see Sessions’ chart.
We scrolled down expecting to find some fiery anti-Obama quotes. We found nothing of the sort. Just facts. Imagine that…
