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Paul Ryan’s brazen lies


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.

And of course, he riffed on the tired central lie of the GOP convention: that the president said “government gets the credit” for small businesses, not the business owners themselves.

Other than that, it was a great speech...

http://www.salon.com/2012/08/30/paul_ryans_brazen_lies/


The truly sad part of all this? Even though the Great Unwashed knows the simple truth of each item noted above they will continue to brazen it out in vain hope of Winning For Their God In Heaven and their earthly masters. That isn't stupidity, it's simple cupidity.

...THAT is disgusting.