KYL AND HIS SPEECH ACT INTENTIONS

Remember the lie Sen. Kyl told about Planned Parenthood?  The one which required a Kyl spokesman to say "his remark was not intended to be a factual statement."? The one that Kyl had expunged from the Congressional Record?

Well, Kyl is using that tactic again. He's now attempting to walk back from his statement that he will quit the special debt committee if there are more defense cuts.

Kyl denies threatening to quit committee
by Dan Nowicki, columnist - Sept. 25, 2011 12:00 AM
The Arizona Republic

"I didn't threaten to leave the committee," said Kyl, one of six Republicans on the supercommittee and the only Arizonan. "I was just making an offhand remark that that's not what I'm on the committee for."