If any of you who watched any of the Republican convention
last week possess even a fraction of a percent of a functional brain, you are
fully aware that almost the entire shindig was nothing but lie after debunked
lie. Debunked or not, Republicans continue to vomit them from their lie-holes
with glee. Politically, people have always tried to argue their point around
the edges of reality. That’s expected. But the Republican Party of today has
now fabricated an entirely fictitious universe and condemns those who dare
expose their lies. This and more.
Enjoy…
The Republicans have so thoroughly closed off the bubble
they live in from the real world that when a fact-checker exposes their lies,
they simply claim the fact-checker must be fact-checked. If you don’t believe
their lies, then you are biased. It’s why they believe everyone but FOX “News”
is ‘the liberal media.’
Paul Ryan criticized President Obama for not implementing
the Simpson-Bowles plan. If someone neutral points out that Ryan neglected to
mention he, himself was one of the people who voted it down and that the plan
never actually reached
Obama’s desk in the first place for the President to
even be able to implement it, this neutral, irrefutable truth to them is
liberally biased and needs to be fact-checked.
Paul Ryan lied and blamed an automobile plant’s closing on
Obama
before he even became President. Any reporting about this neutral,
irrefutable truth is again simply denied and called liberal media bias. Truth,
facts and reality mean absolutely nothing to Republicans.
Frankly, this whole right-wing truth-denying phenomenon is
fucked up and I don’t understand it. At all.
“Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own
facts.”
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan, U.S. Senator 1977 - 2001
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What
this new breed of austere Republican governance ideology fails to comprehend is
that if the Federal Government cuts spending as drastically as they desire,
that simply means the States will have to vastly increase their taxes to make
up for the loss. Where do Republicans think money to pay for basic civilized
necessities will come from? Yes, of course some spending cuts are valid and
necessary, but a certain upper class of income earners will also need to have
their taxes raised to be equal with a certain middle class of income earners.
That is not punishment. That is equality. That is fairness.
Republicans
seem to call for these austerity measures at the same time the Republican State
Governors have their hands out for more Federal dole. They seem to want it both
ways.
Hypocrite
much?
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The Bush Tax Cuts and the
Iraq and Afghanistan wars account for approximately TWO THIRDS of U.S. total
debt.
Some
more details HERE.
The
Bush Tax Cuts and the Iraq and Afghanistan wars account for approximately HALF
of U.S. public debt.
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Republicans cut programs because they have no vision or
foresight. They can only see what's directly in front of them at any given
moment. That, and cutting programs allows corporations to take more from the kitty.
Why should the government NOT cut funding to the arts? It
might have something to do with education, job creation, a stronger economy and
technological innovation.
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“A lot of people think that Mitt Romney was really in the
business of turning companies around — that’s not really what he was doing. He
was in the business of extracting value for his investors." — Rolling
Stone's Matt Taibbi
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Why do Republicans start chanting, "We need to stop
spending money we don't have!" the very instant after they have spent
billions of dollars of borrowed money (on two unnecessary wars) and caused a
massive recession (helped along by two massive tax cuts)? Oh, right. It's only
when a Democrat becomes President that we suddenly need to be fiscally
responsible.
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There were many wonderful Republican Presidents. Abraham
Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan. They
were responsible for freeing the slaves, building the transcontinental
railroad, making college affordable, proposing universal health care, creating
national parks, taking on big corporations, fighting for labor rights, women's
rights, civil rights, creating income and estate taxes, expanded funding for
the Arts and Humanities, created the Environmental Protection Agency, building
the Interstate Highway System, NASA, the Panama Canal, were always willing to
compromise and wrote the Comprehensive Health Insurance Plan.
All of them progressive.
Almost the entire Republican Party today is Republican in
name only.
If you were to believe what they say today, you would be
proud to be a Republican. If you were to pay attention to what they actually do
today, you would be horrified at their rampant fascism.
Compilation from HBO's "Newsroom"
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On
the Republican racism front, THIS
is fun. Louisiana never disappoints.
And
if you have time, check out THIS
handy database.
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Now,
to wash out that despicable taste from your brain, please enjoy this:
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No one covered the Republican National Convention better than the Daily Show. Here are links to the full episodes. Just watch them, dammit.
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What?
The Republican National Convention workers were paid UNDER
minimum wage? How utterly UNsurprising.
#Occupy
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Read
this.
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Paul
Ryan HATES social programs. ALL of them. This is not a secret. He HATES them and like most Republicans, wants
to get rid of them. Social
programs stand in the way of rich people taking more money. No matter what he
says, why, why, WHY would we believe his Medicare plan is designed
to SAVE Medicare and NOT get rid
of it? Why?
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So sad when people you
admire become old, doddering, multi-millionaires who stutter untruths heard on
FOX "News" and believe they're still living during the cold war while
talking to people who aren't there. I'm pretty sure Mr. Eastwood can afford the
care he needs as the sun continues setting on his mental acuity. At least he
had the courage to get up and pander to a crowd that already believes the
nonsense he spewed just for some cheap applause.
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Clint's confused
rambling made me think of the 80's when we had a sitting President with
Alzheimer's. I think that's what Clint was thinking of, too. Either that or a
giant rabbit.
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That's right. Lindsey Graham doesn't think the Republican Party is racist enough.
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SCIENCE!
Bill Nye: Creationism
Is Not Appropriate For Children
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If anyone says to you,
“Name one thing that Obama has done,” just point them HERE.
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I’ve blogged before about the danger that Mitt Romney is to
America. Romney’s pollster, Neil Newhouse said: “We’re not going to let our
campaign be dictated by fact-checkers.” And they most certainly are not. Check
out THIS COLLECTION of over 500 lies that the lying liar, Mitt Romney has lied through
his lying teeth. Oh, yeah, I almost forgot. He’s a sociopath, as well.
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What? More Romney lying? I find that easy to believe.
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Then there’s THIS.
Fuck you, Mitt Romney.
#Occupy
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Here is an article about Republican lies and why right-wing disciples
unquestioningly follow them. Informative. Please read.
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Yes. I am disappointed with President Obama.
Aside from the fact that he
leans right of center, my main disappointment is that he has
not fought against the complete Republican obstructionism as hard as I would
have hoped for. To continue to expect a different result – that at some point
the Republicans would work with him after slapping him down again and again and
again and again – is, what do they
say… a sign of insanity. Stop playing nice, Sir. They hate you. They will never
work with you. That has been their plan from the start.
One of the themes of the Republican convention was that it
is OK that you supported Obama last time. But since he has failed, it’s time to
switch teams.
Switch to the Republicans? The ones who blocked EVERY SINGLE
piece of legislation Obama tried to pass? “We fucked everything up that Obama
tried to do. We caused America’s rating to drop. We prolonged the recession. We
blocked every jobs bill. We are the reason Obama has not done as good as he
promised. Vote for us.”
Eat heaping piles of warm, gushy shit, Fascists.
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And for fuck’s fucking sake, people, the fucking word is
fucking PUNDIT. Not fucking PUNDINT.
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Finally, I’ve decided to copy the text on this one instead
of posting a link. It was actually on foxnews.com, and I do believe they will
eventually scrub it. You will understand why in a moment…
Paul Ryan’s Speech in 3 Words
By Sally Kohn / Published August 30, 2012 / FoxNews.com
1. Dazzling
At least a quarter of Americans still don’t know who Paul
Ryan is, and only about half who know and have an opinion of him view him favorably.
So, Ryan’s primary job tonight was to introduce himself and
make himself seem likeable, and he did that well. The personal parts of the
speech were very personally delivered, especially the touching parts where Ryan
talked about his father and mother and their roles in his life. And at the end
of the speech, when Ryan cheered the crowd to its feet, he showed an energy and
enthusiasm that’s what voters want in leaders and what Republicans have been
desperately lacking in this campaign.
To anyone watching Ryan’s speech who hasn’t been paying much
attention to the ins and outs and accusations of the campaign, I suspect Ryan
came across as a smart, passionate and all-around nice guy — the sort of guy
you can imagine having a friendly chat with while watching your kids play
soccer together. And for a lot of voters, what matters isn’t what candidates
have done or what they promise to do —it’s personality. On this measure, Mitt
Romney has been catastrophically struggling and with his speech, Ryan humanized
himself and presumably by extension, the top of the ticket.
2. Deceiving
On the other hand, to anyone paying the slightest bit of
attention to facts, Ryan’s speech was an apparent attempt to set the world
record for the greatest number of blatant lies and misrepresentations slipped
into a single political speech. On this measure, while it was Romney who ran the Olympics, Ryan
earned the gold.
The good news is that the Romney-Ryan campaign has likely
created dozens of new jobs among the legions of additional fact checkers that
media outlets are rushing to hire to sift through the mountain of cow dung that
flowed from Ryan’s mouth. Said fact checkers have already condemned certain
arguments that Ryan still irresponsibly repeated.
Fact: While Ryan tried to pin the downgrade of the United
States’ credit rating on spending under President Obama, the credit rating was
actually downgraded because Republicans threatened not to raise the debt ceiling.
Fact: While Ryan blamed President Obama for the shut down of
a GM plant in Janesville, Wisconsin, the plant was actually closed under President George W. Bush. Ryan actually asked for federal spending to save the plant, while
Romney has criticized the auto industry bailout that President Obama ultimately
enacted to prevent other plants from closing.
Fact: Though Ryan insisted that President Obama wants to
give all the credit for private sector success to government, that isn't what
the president said. Period.
Fact: Though Paul Ryan accused President Obama of taking
$716 billion out of Medicare, the fact is that that amount was savings in
Medicare reimbursement rates (which, incidentally, save Medicare recipients
out-of-pocket costs, too) and Ryan himself embraced these savings in his budget plan.
Elections should be about competing based on your record in
the past and your vision for the future, not competing to see who can get away
with the most lies and distortions without voters noticing or bother to care.
Both parties should hold themselves to that standard. Republicans should be
ashamed that there was even one misrepresentation in Ryan’s speech but sadly,
there were many.
3. Distracting
And then there’s what Ryan didn’t talk about.
Ryan didn’t mention his extremist stance on banning all
abortions with no exception for rape or incest, a stance that is out of touch
with 75% of American voters.
Ryan didn’t mention his previous plan to hand over Social
Security to Wall Street.
Ryan didn’t mention his numerous votes to raise spending and
balloon the deficit when George W. Bush was president.
Ryan didn’t mention how his budget would eviscerate programs
that help the poor and raise taxes on 95% of Americans in order to cut taxes
for millionaires and billionaires even further and increase — yes, increase — the deficit.
These aspects of Ryan’s resume and ideology are sticky to
say the least. He would have been wise to tackle them head on and try and
explain them away in his first real introduction to voters. But instead of Ryan
airing his own dirty laundry, Democrats will get the chance.
At the end of his speech, Ryan quoted his dad, who used to
say to him, “"Son. You have a choice: You can be part of the problem, or
you can be part of the solution."
Ryan may have helped solve some of the likeability problems
facing Romney, but ultimately by trying to deceive voters about basic facts and
trying to distract voters from his own record, Ryan’s speech caused a much
larger problem for himself and his running mate.
Sally Kohn is a Fox News contributor and writer. You can find her online at
http://sallykohn.com or on Twitter at http://twitter.com/sallykohn.
Good day.
*A No-Prize will be given to the first person who figures out the meaning behind the title of this post.
Poor Clint.
Oh, and one last thing before I leave you to your thoughts:
Oh, and one last thing before I leave you to your thoughts:
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