To which Obama’s chief strategist responds by attacking McCain for not picking a non-Republican for VP and mentions legislation that, er, passed by unanimous consent. Translation: He hasn’t, but that other stuff sounds good unless you have a journalist actually willing to fact check the Messiah’s claims.

Transcript c/o Hot Air.

Fox News’ Chris Wallace: Now, David, McCain and Palin do have records of going up against their own parties. When has Barack Obama ever gone up against the Democratic Party in the U.S. Senate?

Obama Senior Strategist David Axelrod: Well, first of all, I want to say this, Chris. Senator McCain on the biggest decision that he’ll ever make, uh, in public life, which is the choice of a vice-presidential nominee, decided not to go up against his own party and was told he couldn’t pick the person he thought was the best choice, amd he went with Governor Palin instead. So I think that’s important to know.

Wallace: Well, OK, but —

Axelrod: One of the first things that Senator Obama did when he came to the U.S. Senate was push for the most far-reaching ethics reforms that we’ve seen since Watergate. That didn’t please people on either side of the aisle, and he has done that consistently in his career. He’s reached across party lines to find consensus and he’s taken on his own party on issues like, like ethics reform. You know, what was interesting about these attacks about bipartisanship and so on is that people like Dick Lugar, the very respected Republican senator from Indiana, spoke out and said, These are just partisan attacks. I’ve worked with Barack Obama.’ They worked together on arms control. Senator Coburn in Oklahoma worked together with him on budget issues, like putting the budget on Google so we can see how our money is being spent, putting caps on the contracts around Katrina rebuilding. Senator Obama has a strong record of working across party lines to produce progress for people.

Wallace: But David, because you guys always talk about ethics legislation and the nuclear non-proliferation deal with Dick Lugar, I went back and looked — both of those measures passed by unanimous consent. They were so accepted by the Senate that there was not even a vote. In fact, ethics legislation was one of the campaign promises. These were not — if I may, if I may. These were not areas where Barack Obama went up against the leadership of his own party nearly in the way that John McCain did on campaign finance reform, on limiting interrogation of terror detainees, on immigration reform. He did not go up against his own party on either of those issues.

Instead of producing an example of a time Obama has gone against his own party, Axelrod attempts to find an example of a time McCain hasn’t. Even that fails, because Palin isn’t exactly endeared to the party. Conservatives? Yes. But this is a woman who’s spent time fighting the Republican establishment, including long-time Senator Ted Stevens and his co-hort Representative Don Young.