Boehner cherry-picking Lincoln quote

I do believe that Republicans are far worse than Democrats at cherry-picking favorable data or quotations to make their points.   Here's a glaring example from John Boehner.

Boehner released a memo warning of the perils of increasing governmental debt by quoting the young Congressman, Abraham Lincoln, who wrote:

“[Government debt] is a system not only ruinous while it lasts, but one that must soon fail and leave us destitute. . . .  An individual who undertakes to live by borrowing, soon finds his original means devoured by interest, and next no one left to borrow from –- so must it be with a government.”

That's fine, as far as Boehner goes, but he stopped too soon.   Lincoln also wrote:

"By this means a new national debt has been created, and is still growing on us with a rapidity fearful to contemplate -- a rapidity only reasonably to be expected in time of war. This state of things has been produced by a prevailing unwillingness either to increase the tariff or resort to direct taxation."

I rest my case.   You can say anything by selectively quoting the dictionary, you know.

Ralph