h/t DU-Thank you
And by the way, Miss Ann; if you REALLY wanted us to see who Mitt really is, MITT CAN RELEASE HIS TAX RETURNS,MMMMKAY!
THE MEME THROUGHOUT THIS CONVENTION IS WEEZ LOOKING OUT FOR OUR CHILDREN & GRANDKIDS.
Here’s day 3 of the RNC SIDESHOW & cast of characters:
CHRIS MATTHEWS- WAR MONGERING GRAMPY MCSHAME
Condoleeza sounds like she doesn’t belief a third of what she’s saying. smh
Paul Ryan’s brazen lies: His Republican National Convention speech was stunning for its dishonesty
Source Salon
Paul Ryan gave a feisty anti-Obama speech that will have fact-checkers working for days. His most brazen lie accused President Obama of “raiding” Medicare by taking the exact same $716 billion that Ryan and the House GOP notoriously voted to slash. It was stunning.
But that’s not all. He attacked Obama for failing to keep open a Janesville GM plant that closed under Bush in 2008. He hit him for a credit-rating downgrade that S&P essentially blamed on GOP intransigence. He claimed that all taxpayers got from the 2009 stimulus was “more debt,” when most got a tax cut (and the stimulus is known to have saved between 1.4 and 3.3 million jobs). He derided the president for walking away from the Simpson Bowles commission deficit-cutting recommendations when Ryan himself, a commission member, voted against those recommendations.
He blamed Obama for a deficit mostly created by programs he himself voted for – from two wars, tax cuts, new Medicare benefits and TARP.
http://www.salon.com/2012/08/30/paul_ryans_brazen_lies/
Paul Ryan Is the Newest New Nixon, a Moocher Belied
By Charles P. Pierce
Esquire
TAMPA, Fla. — I think it was when he went to tears, one dab at each eye, while talking about his mother, that it became extraordinarily clear to me that there’s a lot of old Dick Nixon in young Paul Ryan, the zombie-eyed granny-starver from Janesville, Wisconsin. It was always floating around the edges of my perception as I listened to his well-crafted, competently delivered, and virtually substance-free acceptance speech on Wednesday night. There was the crass connection to “the working men and women,” like himself. The way his voice drops and his eyes glow when he starts talking about the America in which he grew up, where he flipped burgers and washed floors and dreamed very big dreams. There is the obvious effort to… connect, a gift for a simulacrum of empathy that is just inches away from actual sincerity, but which sells on the screen like someone who truly cares about you, his fellow struggling Americans. But it wasn’t until he started tearing up that it all came together for me.
The difference, of course, is that Nixon was deeply, authentically marked by deep and authentic poverty and deprivation. He came by his ultimately self-destructive neuroses honestly. He earned every wound that he imagined the smart people of the world — the Jews, those damn Kennedys — had inflicted on him. He actually worked a job outside of government, and outside the Washington universe of government-dependent think tanks. He once actually had to earn a living. Paul Ryan hasn’t lacked for a job since he left college as the golden child of Wisconsin Republican politics, riding his family connections into a job with then-Senator Bob Kasten.
When Paul Ryan is really working Nixon’s side of the street, he talks about how his father died when he was a teenager, and about how his mother rode the bus to Madison, and he’s trying to wring the same notes from the biographical tin-piano that Nixon could play like Van Cliburn. However, when Ryan turns the phrase, “I still live on the same block where I grew up,” he doesn’t mention that he happens to live in a 5,800-square-foot mansion that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. No good Republican cloth coats in the Ryan closet, that’s for sure. Richard Nixon would have resented this upstart on sight, and not just for stealing his act. He’d have had Bob Haldeman on Ryan’s ass by morning.
It was a good, solid debut for Ryan, who benefitted tremendously from a hall that had gone rapturous over an earlier speech by Condoleezza Rice, whose career as a studious non-politician came to a definitive end last night. (I say this in all sincerity: The woman has the finest diction of any public speaker I have heard anywhere. She may have been the last college student ever who paid attention in Public Speaking class.) Condi even had the considerable cheek to mention 9/11, the greatest national-security failure a national-security adviser ever had, right off the top. The house loved her, though, and she completely energized what had been a weird, disjointed ragbag of an evening full of speeches that went from an Old-Timer’s Game — John McCain, Mike Huckabee — to a speechifying contest among the entire roster of vice-presidential runners-up. John Thune and Rob Portman showed why they didn’t get the gig, and Tim Pawlenty told some really bad jokes and did everything but leave his resume on the podium for Willard Romney to pick up later. But it was Rice who put the charge in the place and gave Ryan something on which to build. Which he did, even though his performance was interrupted early on by protestors holding a banner reading, “Vagina: Can’t Say It, Don’t Legislate It.” And shouting, “Health care, not warfare,” and “My body, my choice.” Frankly, it was about time somebody in the hall mentioned abortion.
The rest: http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/paul-ryan-convention-speech-12188956
The Most Dishonest Convention Speech … Ever?
Jonathan Cohn
You’re going to read and hear a lot about Paul Ryan’s speech on Wednesday night. And I imagine most of it will be about how Ryan’s speech played—with the party loyalists in Tampa, with the television viewers across the country, and eventually with the swing voters who will decide the election.
I’d like to talk, instead, about what Ryan actually said—not because I find Ryan’s ideas objectionable, although I do, but because I thought he was so brazenly willing to twist the truth.
At least five times, Ryan misrepresented the facts. And while none of the statements were new, the context was. It’s one thing to hear them on a thirty-second television spot or even in a stump speech before a small crowd. It’s something else entirely to hear them in prime time address, as a vice presidential nominee is accepting his party’s nomination and speaking to the entire country.
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Jonathan Cohn: …. I’d like to talk, instead, about what Ryan actually said — not because I find Ryan’s ideas objectionable, although I do, but because I thought he was so brazenly willing to twist the truth.
At least five times, Ryan misrepresented the facts. And while none of the statements were new, the context was. It’s one thing to hear them on a thirty-second television spot or even in a stump speech before a small crowd. It’s something else entirely to hear them in prime time address, as a vice presidential nominee is accepting his party’s nomination and speaking to the entire country.
Here are the five statements that deserve serious scrutiny….
READ ON OR DID YOU LISTEN FROM THE VIDEO ABOVE?
http://www.tnr.com/blog/plank/106730/ryan-most-dishonest-convention-speech-five-lies-gm-medicare-deficit-medicaid
DEBUNKING PAUL RYAN & THE GOP LIES
Obama Campaign TruthTeam2012 @truthteam2012
.@stefcutter on Paul Ryan: “Forty minutes of vitriol and a half dozen previously debunked attacks, but not one tangible idea.”
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FACT: Ryan opposed the deficit reduction deal because it would help President Obama’s re-election chances. http://OFA.BO/d7brJS
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FACT: Paul Ryan blamed President Obama for a GM factory closing in Janesville, WI. The factory was slated to close BEFORE Obama took office.
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FACT: Romney ranked 47th out of 50 in job growth as Massachusetts governor. http://OFA.BO/d4D5Ac
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FACT: Ryan fails to mention that he repeatedly sought Recovery Act funds for his own district.
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FACT: 38,000 teachers and 27,000 special education teachers could lose their jobs because of the Ryan budget. http://OFA.BO/UgkgzA
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FACT: The Ryan budget would cut elementary and secondary education funding by $4.8 billion. http://OFA.BO/y4vmmn
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FACT: The Ryan budget would push 200,000 children from Head Start early education. http://OFA.BO/eVGw2u
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FACT: The Romney-Ryan ticket has provided no plan to reduce the deficit.
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FACT: Economists say Romney’s ideas wouldn’t fix the short-term crisis and could make things worse. http://OFA.BO/f6Y5mC
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FACT: Romney and Ryan both say they want housing market to “hit bottom.” http://OFA.BO/GGHu1C
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FACT: Romney said, “Don’t try to stop the foreclosure process. Let it run its course and hit the bottom.” http://OFA.BO/1Ux6KR
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FACT: New retirees could pay an extra $6,400 a year under a Medicare plan authored by Paul Ryan. http://OFA.BO/mnG5fM
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FACT: Ryan’s budget would end guaranteed benefits for Medicare. http://OFA.BO/Xz3fyk
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FACT: Ryan’s budget would end Medicare as we know it, turning it into a voucher system.
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FACT: The consensus among economists is that the Recovery Act staved off a rerun of the 1930s. http://OFA.BO/WGqhM5
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FACT: Ryan criticized President Obama’s decision to save the auto industry after voting in favor of it. http://OFA.BO/7aXW43
The Vacuum Behind the Slogans
Published: August 29, 2012
The party that claims to have all the answers on Medicare seemed to have no interest in sharing them with the American people at its convention on Wednesday. The session, devoted to the theme of “We Can Change It,” never went any deeper than that slogan or a few others: Reform Medicare. Strengthen Medicare. Protect Medicare.
All without the slightest hint of how that supposed reform or strengthening would take place, regarding that program and many others. “We will not duck the tough issues; we will lead,” said Representative Paul Ryan, in his speech accepting the vice-presidential nomination. “We will not spend four years blaming others; we will take responsibility.”
Sounds great, except that the speech ducked the tough issues and blamed others for the problems.
Mr. Ryan, who rose to prominence on the Republican barricades with a plan to turn Medicare into a voucher system, never uttered the word “voucher” to the convention. He said Medicare was there for his grandmother and mother, but neglected to say that he considers it too generous to be there in the same form for future grandmothers (while firmly opposing the higher taxes on the rich that could keep it strong). He never mentioned his plan to abandon Medicaid on the doorstep of the states, or that his budget wouldn’t come close to a balance for 28 years.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/30/opinion/the-vacuum-behind-the-republican-political-slogans.html?_r=3&hp&utm_source=buffer&buffer_share=1fd17