Friday, August 31, 2012

MEDIA USES EUPHEMISMS TO DESCRIBE ROMNEY THE LIAR'S RUNNING MATE, LYIN' RYAN

Confronted with a mass of brazen, out-and-out lies from Little Paulie Ryan this week, the members of the news media have resorted to indirect ways of describing Ryan's lies. Examples:

1. "GOP vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan took some factual shortcuts during the Republican convention when he attacked President Barack Obama." (Cal Woodward and Jack Gillum at The Associated Press)

2. "It was just one of several striking and demonstrably misleading elements of Ryan's much-anticipated acceptance speech." (Ryan Grim at The Huffington Post)

3. "Ryan misleads on GM plant closing in hometown: Paul Ryan appeared to suggest that President Obama was responsible for the closing of a GM plant in Ryan’s hometown of Janesville, Wisc. That's not true." (Glenn Kessler at The Washington Post)

4. "Ryan's misleading speech... was part introduction of himself and his small-town origins, part testimonial to his running mate and — in largest part — a slashing and, in many elements, misleading indictment of President Obama as both a spent force and a threat to American freedom." (The editorial board at The Washington Post)

5. "Paul Ryan's factually shaky Republican convention speech... is getting slammed for some pretty heavy inaccuracies." (Brett LoGiurato at Business Insider)

You know, I have an idea. Follow the lead of people like Joan Walsh:

CALL LIES WHAT THEY ARE: LIES 

Willard and Little Paulie intend to lie their faces off every day between now and Election Day. The media have to guts it up and call them on it, loudly and clearly. R and R's policies are horrifying and their campaign despicable. Only concerted demands for the truth can stop them.

Because Romney and Ryan can't stand exposure to the light of day.

Thursday, August 30, 2012

THE FIVE BIGGEST LIES IN ROMNEY THE LIAR'S LYING ACCEPTANCE ADDRESS

Very ably summarized here.  Highlights:

Romney Promises to Create 12 Million New Jobs and Claims Obama has no Jobs Plan   

What Romney Said,   “And unlike the president, I have a plan to create 12 million new jobs.”

The Truth:   This is a double whopper on Romney’s part, and one that he is fond of repeating on the campaign trail. First, President Obama does have a plan to create jobs. It’s called the American Jobs Act, and it was killed by congressional Republicans.

The second part of Romney’s lie was a bit more devious. Romney promised to create 12 million new jobs, because he and his campaign know that economic forecasts show that if nothing is done, the economy will create 11.8 on it’s own. Mitt Romney is suggested that America should elect him because his leadership will be 200,000 jobs better than doing absolutely nothing. That is the kind of leadership that Mitt Romney is promising America.

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Romney Claims Obama Began his Presidency with an Apology Tour

What Romney Said,  “I will begin my presidency with a jobs tour. President Obama began with an apology tour. America, he said, had dictated to other nations. No Mr. President, America has freed other nations from dictators.”

The Truth:  This is a huge lie  that has been debunked by every fact checker in the United States. It is also one of the Republican Party’s favorite lies about Obama.

As The Washington Post’s  Fact Checker put it, “The claim that Obama repeatedly has apologized for the United States is not borne out by the facts, especially if his full quotes are viewed in context. Obama often was trying to draw a rhetorical distinction between his policies and that of President Bush, a common practice when the presidency changes parties. The shift in policies, in fact, might have been more dramatic from Clinton to Bush than from Bush to Obama, given how Obama has largely maintained Bush’s approach to fighting terrorism."

Look folks, Willard and Little Paulie are going to spend the next nine weeks hurling every vicious lie they can in order to steal power. We have to keep sending out the alert:


WE HAVE TO WIN. THERE IS NO ALTERNATIVE.

LIES, DAMNED LIES, AND ROMNEY-RYAN

ROMNEY THE LIAR'S RUNNING MATE: LYIN' RYAN

Wow, Joan Walsh at Salon hit it right on the head in this  article: 


 PAUL RYAN'S BRAZEN LIES  

Key section:

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
. [My emphases]

This is now becoming a war for the soul of the country, folks. If Romney and Ryan lie their way into power, the damage to our political system may just be irrevocable. If truth means ANYTHING we have to destroy Willard and Lyin' Ryan.

There is no other choice.


Wednesday, August 29, 2012

ROMNEY THE LIAR'S CONVENTION, DAY 2: RYAN DAZZLES THE CROWD WITH BLATANT ***LIES***

Again, I refuse to watch a single second of Hate Fest 2012, so I again must rely on those made of sterner stuff than I. An example of such an intrepid individual is Jonathan Bernstein. His reaction is here

It [the speech] was, by any reasonable standards, a staggering, staggering lie. Here’s Paul Ryan about Barack Obama: 

"He created a bipartisan debt commission. They came back with an urgent report. He thanked them, sent them on their way, and then did exactly nothing."

 “They.” “Them.” “Them.” Those words are lies. Because Paul Ryan was on that commission. “Came back with an urgent report.” That is a lie. The commission never made any recommendations for Barack Obama to support or oppose. Why not? Because the commission voted down its own recommendations. Why? Because Paul Ryan, a member of the commission, voted it down and successfully convinced the other House Republicans on the commission to vote it down.

That wasn't the only bit of mendacity – lazy mendacity, incredibly lazy mendacity – in Ryan’s speech. Twitter lit up as soon as he started telling the story of the Janesville auto plant that Barack Obama didn't save – a plant that, it turns out, closed before Obama was president. And of course there’s the infamous cuts to Medicare that Ryan lambasted Obama for without happening to mention that those very same cuts were in Paul Ryan’s own budget. Yes: absolutely everything in Obamacare is an abomination, says Paul Ryan, except for (as he forgets to mention) the cuts to Medicare that he supports – and yet he still singles that part out to use as an attack.

 ...There’s also, as many were pointing out, the plain fact that until January 2009 Paul Ryan faithfully supported all the tax cuts and spending increases which created the deficit problem he’s been so concerned about since January 2009.

Ryan has a reputation as being a "serious" man. He is no such thing. He is a lying, frightening right-wing zealot of the worst kind. He is a perfect fit for the utterly dishonest Willard--a match made in political hell.

By the way, I came across this video yesterday, and I was wondering what people thought of it:

Interesting, no?

Tuesday, August 28, 2012

ROMNEY THE LIAR'S CONVENTION: AN ORGY OF OUTRIGHT ***LIES***

For my own health, I refuse to watch a single second of the Republican convention. But two intrepid men did so on by behalf. First off, the fearless Andrew Sullivan live-blogging the whole train wreck right here. Highlights:  

9.31 pm. Santorum speaks as if Obama needs to be taught what it is to be an American. The whole night so far has been reiterating every bald-faced out-of-context lie about the president.

9.33 pm. A reader writes: Tonight's theme at the RNC is We Built That. The Republicans should also post that under the national debt counter they have above the podium. Another: One of the RNC's "We Built That" profiles of American small-business owners includes a short spot with Sam Sakata, owner of Sakata Farms. Sakata is a plain-spoken, laconic guy who expresses disappointment with Obama but little vitriol. But one sentiment he never expresses? A sense of gratitude or humility for the $79,430 worth of Federal subsidies he received during the first five years of his business. 

9.34 pm. Santorum is saying that Obama has "waived the work requirement for welfare". This is a lie - spoken by the runner-up for the nomination. It is a lie. The waivers have been routine for state experimentation. Many were sought by Republican governors. They were designed to ensure more efficient ways to get work as part of the welfare requirement. Santorum is a devout Catholic. So why is he lying out loud on national television? And why is he stirring up racial division by lying? If you ever thought the guy had some integrity, you now know he doesn't.

9.38 pm. The fact-checking of Boehner's speech is brutal as well. This is a convention based on lies, it appears. Kessler: House Speaker John Boehner’s speech starts out with just about every out-of-context quote used by Republicans to bash President Obama. Two of his examples were featured in our Gaffe-check videos: “The private sector is doing fine” and “If you’ve got a business, “you didn’t build that.” Such gaffes are effective when they reinforce an existing stereotype—in this case, the notion that Obama is hostile to private enterprise. But as our videos show, both of these quotes were taken out of context. This seems a natural next step for a fundamentalist party, inventing its own reality, insisting on its own truths, and simply refusing to acknowledge reality. There is a case to be made against Obama; but what we have been hearing so far is an attack on a president who exists entirely in the imagination of the GOP base. 

9.40 pm. Santorum was movingly genuine in his pro-life fanaticism. But he also critically played up the welfare lie. 

10.02 pm. Another lie about welfare reform - adding that Obama "gutted" it secretly in the middle of the night. And another obvious lie: Not a single Republican idea in Obamacare? How about the individual mandate? Healthcare exchanges? But here's what's staggering about this dude: he has turned his own lie into an accusation that Obama - and every fact-checker in the business - into an alleged lie by Obama! This is what a cold civil war looks like: making shit up entirely to create an illusion of reality. No engagement; no real argument; no actual debate. Just fantasy. 

10.05 pm. Nikki Haley repeats the lie about how Obama said that small business owners "didn't build their businesses". The lie is now a premise for further lies. So Obama is actually chasing industry overseas. 

10.12 pm. I can't say I found Haley that galvanizing - or her rhetoric persuasive. Seriously, Obama is also "destabilizing" the military? What part of the fictitious kitchen sink has been left behind. 

10.49  pm. Chris Christie is attacking politicians who attack!  

10.50 pm. After a night of categorical lies, Christie tells us to face the truth. 

10.55 pm. Key sentence: Their plan: whistle a happy tune while driving us off the fiscal cliff, as long as they are behind the wheel of power while we fall. Why would anyone in politics want to do that? Christie is describing is not found in reality. Maybe Obama is misguided - but does he really want to wreck the country? Who believes that but Limbaugh fans? 

10.56 pm. Another key sentence: We believe it's possible to forge bipartisan compromise and stand up for conservative principles. Which translates into no new tax revenues; increased defense spending; and Medicare cuts in the distant future. Where is the compromise in the GOP platform? The meaning of that sentence seems to me to say rather simply that "We believe it's possible to force Democrats to adopt every single GOP idea and refuse to offer them anything in return and that's bipartisanship." 

10.56 pm. Another key sentence: We believe it's possible to forge bipartisan compromise and stand up for conservative principles. Which translates into no new tax revenues; increased defense spending; and Medicare cuts in the distant future. Where is the compromise in the GOP platform? The meaning of that sentence seems to me to say rather simply that "We believe it's possible to force Democrats to adopt every single GOP idea and refuse to offer them anything in return and that's bipartisanship." 



10.58 pm. I feel as if I am behind the looking glass. Another statement [by Christie]: "Tonight, our duty is to tell the American people the truth. Our problems are big and the solutions will not be painless. We all must share in the sacrifice. Any leader that tells us differently is simply not telling the truth."  So Christie is presumably for Obama. On the debt, the Republicans believe that some should be spared pain and not have to "share in the sacrifice": the very wealthy and the Pentagon. Only the poor and the old and the sick have to make sacrifices. The wealthy and the defense contractors can sleep soundly. No sacrifice for them. Obama, on the other hand, favors cuts in Medicare (and has enforced them), cuts in defense, and increases in tax revenues from the very wealthy. Only Obama wants to share the sacrifice. 

Well, you get the idea. The Republicans told the "You didn't build that" lie and the "gutting welfare" lie over and over and over. I'm glad I missed it. And the comment by the redoubtable Pierce on all this is not to be missed:

It was an entire evening based on a demonstrable lie. It was an entire evening based on demonstrable lies told in service to the overriding demonstrable lie. And there was only one real story for actual journalists to tell at the end of it.

The Republicans simply don't care.

They don't care that they lie. They don't care that their lies are obvious. They don't care that their lies wouldn't fool an underpaid substitute Social Studies teacher in a public middle school, who would then probably go out one night and get yelled at by Chris Christie. ("They believe in teacher's unions. We believe in teachers," he said in his speech. Yeah, you just don't believe in paying them.)

They don't care that they lie so obviously that they always get caught, like they did with the evening's entire theme, like they have in and around the Tampa Bay Times Forum, or with the story of poor Jack Gilchrist. The Republicans will just tell the lie again. And again. And once more, until people get tired of telling the truth in response.

It was an entire evening based on a demonstrable lie because it was an entire evening based on rejecting — publicly and dishonestly, and without caring that the facts of your own biographies give the lie to the words you're saying — the idea of a general political commonwealth as expressed through the national government, which has been the great engine behind the expansion of the country's size, the country's wealth, and, yes, the country's freedom...

It was an entire evening based on a demonstrable lie, and it was topped off by a demonstrable liar named Chris Christie, who talked about how the president can't lead, and that nobody wants to tell the Americans the truth of the sacrifices we have to share, and talked about "politicians who pander" at a convention that is preparing to nominate Willard Romney, which was the final hilarious lie of the night, since Romney hasn't stopped pandering since he walked down the steps of the Massachusetts State House in 2006.

You know, after hearing about this lying Republican clap-trap, I have only one wish:

That next week the Democrats bring out the knives to use on Willard. 

The big, long, sharp, nasty ones.

Monday, August 27, 2012

ROMNEY THE LIAR CALLED OUT ON HIS WELFARE LIE ***AGAIN***

ROMNEY THE LIAR DOUBLING DOWN ON WELFARE LIE

He says that this [utterly fictional] policy is to shore up President Obama's base.

Hey Willard, why not be totally up-front with your lie?

"Obama wants to get rid of the work requirement for welfare so all the nig*ers will come out to vote for him."


HOW DID ROMNEY THE LIAR GET $101,000,000 IN HIS IRA?!?

Especially when was allowed to invest only $30,000 a year into it? William D. Cohan at Bloomberg had some questions about this as well, right here:

This great mystery seems to have troubled others, as well. On July 3, Current TV host Jennifer Granholm, a former Democratic governor of Michigan, invited Edward Kleinbard, a law professor at the University of Southern California, on her show to discuss how Romney could have accomplished this remarkable feat. There were “only two possibilities,” Kleinbard told Granholm. Either “from a little acorn, a mighty oak grew very, very quickly, extraordinarily so,” Kleinbard explained, causing Granholm to interject, “What little acorn could grow to be $101 million? I want to get some of that acorn!”

The other possibility, Kleinbard suggested, was not dissimilar to what [Mark]  Maremont theorized: that Romney contributed limited-partnership interests in Bain’s buyouts to his IRA. What was “quite troubling” to Kleinbard is that he suspected Romney may have contributed these interests to his IRA at a fraction of their market value -- “pennies on the dollar” -- and well below what he might have charged you or me.  When the buyouts became successful, Kleinbard proposed, the pennies on the dollar were suddenly worth real dollars.

“What’s very frustrating to me about all this is that we can only talk in abstractions and generalities because, again, of the lack of disclosure,” Kleinbard said.

Lack of disclosure is the hallmark of Willard's career. His suspicious activities are always cloaked in secrecy. Willard will stonewall, lie, BS, hem and haw but he will NOT  disclose his financial activities.

What is he hiding from us?

What is it he doesn't want us to see?

WE HAVE A RIGHT TO KNOW.

Sunday, August 26, 2012

IS ROMNEY THE LIAR A TAX CHEAT?

Willard is starting to feel the heat. The 950 pages of documents released on Gawker concerning Mittens' byzantine financial dealings were at first dismissed as "routine", but on second examination, maybe not so routine after all. Consider this

Romney used a tax avoidance strategy that some lawyers call illegal. Bain partners avoided more than $200 million in income tax and $20 million in Medicare taxes by converting ordinary income into capital gains. "If challenged in court, Bain would lose," writes U. Colorado law professor Victor Fleischer. "The Bain partners, in my opinion, misreported their income if they reported these converted fees as capital gain instead of ordinary income." Another tax law professor, Gregg D. Polsky, agrees that the strategy is "subject to serious challenge by the IRS." 

I want this matter pressed to the MAXIMUM. As I've said before, Romney has the  STENCH OF CORRUPTION around him. Don't let him off the hook!

Thursday, August 23, 2012

WHY ROMNEY THE LIAR KEEPS LYING ABOUT OBAMA AND WELFARE

The Plum Line has the goods here. Money paragraphs:

The verdict from fact-checkers...is unanimous: Romney is outright lying about the Obama administration’s change to welfare. Why would Romney continue use the claim if it’s been proven false?

The first answer has everything to do with the press. Reporters aren’t equipped to deal with constant dishonesty, and one-off fact checks aren’t enough to stop a lie from gaining currency. The Romney campaign is capitalizing on both facts to push a false narrative and embed it in the political conversation. So far, judging from the non-response of most reporters, it’s working.

The second answer is much more cynical. As Greg noted when the first ad debuted, this is a clear attempt to resurrect the politics of resentment. It’s no accident that Romney uses this line when speaking to groups of working-class white voters; it’s meant to conjure images of “young bucks” and “welfare queens” who abuse the system and take from more “productive” Americans. Indeed, when you consider the extent to which this attack came out of the blue — no one was talking about welfare before Romney began this assault — and the fact that Romney’s White House bid depends on record levels of support from white voters, it’s hard not to see it as a blatant attempt to pander to the racial anxieties of downscale whites. (My emphasis)

Willard is DELIBERATELY  resorting to racial resentment and racist stereotypes. He is DELIBERATELY  lying to gain the votes of low-information white voters. This is as ugly and despicable a tactic as I've seen. But coming from Willard, it doesn't surprise me.

We MUST stop this liar and this fraud from becoming president.


ROMNEY THE LIAR ***POWERFULLY*** SKEWERED IN NEW ARTICLE

It's a wonderful take down of America's biggest, most dangerous liar, the god-awful Willard. It can be found right here. Excerpts:

He doesn't want to talk about his taxes, either, although he finally and conveniently asserted that the returns he was refusing to disclose revealed he had always paid about “13 percent.” Now, that rate for a guy with an income of $20 million is hardly a profile in fairness. But if he did pay something more than 1 or 2 or 5 percent, or more than zero, then why not make the returns public? There’s more than a chance that his expedient reassurance is a ruse. As Ann Romney blurted out, the “reason we don’t disclose more is…it will just give them more ammunition.”

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While dissembling about his own position, Romney counterfeited Obama’s, alleging in a hastily edited spot that the president “cut $716 billion from Medicare…[t]o pay for Obamacare.” Haste, and the taste of impending political doom lay waste to the truth. Obama didn’t cut one dollar from Medicare benefits, but payments to providers like hospitals with a poor record of patient care and insurance companies that have inflated the cost of Medicare Advantage, a Bush-born private supplement that suggests how inefficient and expensive for seniors Ryan’s vouchers would be. Moreover, the accurate figure for the savings is $500 billion; Politifact was moved to ask where Romney the vaunted numbers man found Obama cutting another “$200 billion while no one was looking.” Undeterred and determined to lie his way out of trouble with seniors, Romney doubled down. The president, he said, has “robbed” Medicare.

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Or take Romney’s constant refrain that the president is responsible for “an inferno” of “debt and spending.” That’s flat-out wrong. Under Obama, annualized growth in federal spending has risen at the slowest pace in decades. Debt and deficits have been driven primarily by Bush’s tax cuts, Bush’s unfunded wars, and the Bush economic collapse of 2008. Despite the Obama stimulus, the rate of increase in federal spending was even higher under Herbert Hoover. And if the House GOP hadn’t stymied Obama, there would have been additional job-creating stimulus; the recovery would be more robust; and Romney’s prospects would be even more anemic than they are.

The list could go on and on. One Republican operative, a genuine conservative who thinks Romney isn’t genuine at all, renders his verdict: “He doesn’t believe in anything but his own ambition.” Maybe that’s why Romney will say anything. But why, then, should we believe anything he says?

Yes, indeed, why? If Romney told me my own name I'd check my drivers license just to be sure. Read the whole thing. And then pass it on!!

Wednesday, August 22, 2012

ROMNEY THE LIAR'S PHILOSOPHY


ROMNEY THE LIAR TRYING TO HAVE IT BOTH WAYS ON RAPE UPROAR

Poor Willard. Here he is, trying to be as deceptive as possible about so many things, and someone like Todd Akin, the idiot right wing fanatic in Missouri who shot off his mouth about whether all rape victims have been "legitimately" raped, blows his cover. Willard officially repudiated Akin's message. But you see, the sick, ludicrous idea that rape hardly ever results in pregnancy (!) has been promoted most prominently by someone that Willard himself was mentored by, John Willke. The story is here:

Here is what this Dr. Willke (who is the source for Akin’s “female body shuts down pregnancy” hokum) has said about pregnancy and rape:

Dr. John C. Willke, a general practitioner with obstetric training and a former president of the National Right to Life Committee, was an early proponent of this view, articulating it in a book originally published in 1985 and again in a 1999 article. He reiterated it in an interview Monday. 

“This is a traumatic thing — she’s, shall we say, she’s uptight,” Dr. Willke said of a woman being raped, adding, “She is frightened, tight, and so on. And sperm, if deposited in her vagina, are less likely to be able to fertilize. The tubes are spastic.” 

A physician and former president of the National Right to Life Committee, Willke was an “important surrogate” for Romney’s 2008 presidential bid. Willke is the oft-cited source of the theory that rape-related pregnancies are “rare.” The theory is sometimes used by antiabortion advocates to argue that abortion laws should not contain exceptions for pregnancies that result from rape or incest.

Willke believes that trauma caused by violent rape causes a woman’s reproductive system to shut down. He presents this belief as fact in educational materials, including a book about abortion and a website called abortionfacts.com. Willke’s views – and his role in promoting a theory that has been widely rejected in modern medicine – appear not to have concerned Romney in 2007, when he touted Willke’s endorsement.

“Dr. Willke is a leading voice within the pro-life community and will be an important surrogate for Governor Romney’s pro-life and pro-family agenda,” the Romney campaign said in an October 2007 statement.

“I am proud to have the support of a man who has meant so much to the pro-life movement in our country,” Romney said in the statement. “He knows how important it is to have someone in Washington who will actively promote pro-life policies. Policies that include more than appointing judges who will follow the law but also opposing taxpayer-funded abortion and partial-birth abortion.” 

Insane nonsense. Shocking. Horrible. Why? Because this whole "can't get pregnant from a rape" lie is the basis of the Republican assertion that women who say they've been impregnated by a rapist are lying, and have no right to end the pregnancy

Unbelievable. And the chief idiot spreading this garbage is admired and ENDORSED by Willard.

Women of America, draw your own conclusions.

Tuesday, August 21, 2012

ROMNEY THE LIAR CALLED OUT ON HIS WELFARE LIE BY PRESIDENT OBAMA HIMSELF

But the President was a lot more polite about it than I would be. Greg Sargent has the story here

Romney right now is premising one of the central arguments of his whole campaign on a complete lie. The notion that Obama “gutted” the work requirement in welfare reform has been debunked again and again by independent fact checkers and by the president who signed the law Obama supposedly gutted (see Clinton, Bill).

But Romney has now run three ads — one, two, three — making this claim. Incredibly, the Romney campaign is doing this, even though he himself said that campaigns should pull ads that are called out by fact checkers. Romney and his surrogates have repeated the welfare lie in forum after forum after forum.

Steve Benen notes today that Romney is betting that “political journalism isn’t equipped to deal with a campaign predicated entirely on falsehoods,” and that his historic levels of mendacity poses a test for our political system. I’m inclined to agree.

The folks working at the big news organizations know Romney is lying with abandon. What should they do about it?

What indeed? Romney lies with impunity because he doesn't get called on it enough. (That's why we need to spread this blog far and wide.) It is up to us to stop these lies in their tracks--before Romney gets a chance to finish the work of destroying America that Bush, Cheney, and Rove advanced so far between 2001 and 2009.

Monday, August 20, 2012

HEY FANS OF ROMNEY THE LIAR! CAN YOU SPARE FIVE BUCKS?

If so, please hit my fundraiser for President Obama. It's right here

If we don't get our message out, Romney's lies win. PLEASE give just $5 or whatever you can spare.

Thank you!

ROMNEY THE LIAR'S RUNNING MATE LIES ***BLATANTLY*** ABOUT HAVING ASKED FOR FEDERAL AID

Ahhh, Willard and Little Paulie. What a pair! Little Paulie Ryan is ALMOST as good a liar as his new boss. Check this out:

Republican vice presidential candidate Rep. Paul Ryan denied requesting stimulus money for his home state of Wisconsin in a 2010 interview on WBZ NewsRadio 1030.

But months after Congress approved the nearly $800 billion package, he was trying to steer money under the program to companies in his home state. 

 Rep. Ryan wrote letters in 2009 to Energy Secretary Steven Chu and Labor Secretary Hilda Solis seeking stimulus grant money for two Wisconsin energy conservation companies. One of those companies, the nonprofit Wisconsin Energy Conservation Corp, later received $20.3 million from the Energy Department to help homes and businesses improve energy efficiency, according to federal records.

 But, in a October 28, 2010 interview on WBZ NewsRadio 1030’s Nightside with Dan Rea, Ryan denied ever seeking stimulus money.

 “I assume you voted against the stimulus and I’m just curious if you accepted any money in your district,” a caller, who identified himself as Joe from Stoughton, asked

 “No, I’m not one (of those) people who votes for something then writes to the government to ask them to send us money. I did not request any stimulus money,” Ryan responded. [My emphasis]

LIE. FLAT OUT LIE. RYAN IS LYING. YES, HE DID REQUEST STIMULUS MONEY FOR HIS DISTRICT. WHEN HE SAYS HE DIDN'T HE IS LYING. IS ANYBODY UNCLEAR ON WHAT I AM SAYING?

Please help us in the struggle to keep these two pathological liars Willard and Little Paulie out of the White House. The America you save could be your own.


Sunday, August 19, 2012

ROMNEY THE LIAR ILLEGALLY SUPPRESSED A LABOR UNION

Willard, being basically hostile to ordinary working people, hates unions and typically combines the words "union" and "thug" whenever he speaks of them. So it's no surprise that when Bain [Vulture] Capital was growing, HE BROKE THE LAW to prevent a union from being formed in a company Bain had acquired. Financial Times  has the story here

It was in 1984 that Mr Romney and Mr [T. Coleman]  Andrews founded Bain Capital in an office next door to Bain & Company in Boston. Key Airlines went with them. Towards the end of 1984 their new firm made one of its first investments: a $2m injection into Key. Regulatory filings indicate that Bain Capital’s stake was 24 per cent. 

SEC records show that Mr Romney was a director of Key Airlines when the company was finally sold. Mr Romney’s campaign declined to comment on this or other financial questions about the Key investment. [My emphasis]

[In 1985] Operating profit fell to $1.1m on sales of $30.5m and there was a net loss of $736,000. But a serious issue arose when a majority of Key’s pilots tried to form a union.

Accounts differ as to why Key’s pilots, at the end of 1985, wanted to organise: the pilots cited safety concerns; management said that the pilots were unhappy because of their low pay.

Either way, Bain’s management team at Key recognised that a union would be a problem – particularly because Bain was ready to sell Key, adopting a plan of liquidation for its holding company at the end of 1985.

“Any knowledgeable person familiar with investment in airlines will tell you that it is far easier for non-union airlines to raise capital than it is for a unionised airline,” wrote James Bridges, chief executive, in a letter sent to the pilots in December 1985. Mr Bridges did not return messages left with his office. There followed an unlawful attempt by Mr Andrews and Key management, in the words of District Court judge Roger Foley, “to stamp out any cockpit crew members’ union before it could come into being”.

In January 1986, Mr Andrews and Olen Rae Goodwin, interim president of the union, met in the Key Airlines trailer at Nellis. The court ruled that Mr Andrews had then “threatened [Mr] Goodwin’s job and he threatened to leave Key, and that the management team would also leave. He threatened to sell Key”.

That's Bain style! Threaten to fire someone if they try to form a union--WHICH IS AGAINST THE LAW.  And of course, the secrecy, the lack of comment by the campaign on this matter, are all par for the course. That's Willard's ugly, bare-knuckled way of doing things. Read the whole thing (registration is required). 

And see why the word "thug" doesn't apply to the union--it applies to Willard.  Oh, and just to show that I haven't forgotten--


WHERE ARE YOUR FEDERAL INCOME TAX RECORDS, WILLARD? DID YOU PARTICIPATE IN THE 2009 TAX AMNESTY THE IRS OFFERED TO PEOPLE ILLEGALLY SHELTERING MONEY IN SWITZERLAND?

Friday, August 17, 2012

ROMNEY THE LIAR'S RUNNING MATE CAUGHT IN RIDICULOUS LIE

Oh my oh my. It seems like Willard's running mate, Little Paulie, is almost as adept at lying as Willard himself. He recently claimed that Obama's policies caused the closing of an auto plant in Wisconsin. There's just one thing wrong with that assertion:


THE PLANT CLOSED IN 2008 WHEN GEORGE W. BUSH WAS PRESIDENT


The story is here:

GOP vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan took a swipe at President Barack Obama on Thursday for failing to rescue a General Motors factory in his Wisconsin congressional district, calling it "one more broken promise" on the Democratic administration's record.

"I remember President Obama visiting it when he was first running, saying he'll keep that plant open," Ryan said during a campaign stop. "One of the reasons that plant got shut down was $4 gasoline. You see, this costs jobs. The president's terrible energy policies are costing us jobs."

The attack has already received a fair amount of ridicule because the Janesville, Wis., plant actually closed during the last year of George W. Bush's presidency. What hasn't really been emphasized is whether Ryan clearly knew this and made the charge nonetheless. [My emphasis.]

According to a rudimentary LexisNexis search, Ryan made multiple public pleas to GM, including op-eds in his home state newspaper, to keep the plant open. He and fellow Wisconsin lawmakers went to the automobile company's headquarters to present plans to extend the plant's life. When the Bush administration itself called the decision to close the plant evidence that the auto industry was trimming fat and improving its bottom line, Ryan called the news "gut-wrenching."

And as it became clear in early-fall 2008 that GM wouldn't relent, Ryan publicly touted the federal tax money he secured to help displaced workers  -- a use of funds that would seem at odds with his limited-government, fiscal conservative image.

Hmmm. When he thought it would help his district, all this Ayn Rand small government idiocy Ryan yammers about got thrown out the window. It also appears that Ryan was intimately familiar with the details of the matter, and he deliberately chose to blame President Obama anyway.

This is the way Willard and Little Paulie are gonna play it, folks. They're going to try to lie their way into office.

Unless you help. How can you help?

ARE YOU REGISTERED TO VOTE? ARE YOU SURE? MAKE SURE YOUR REPUBLICAN GOVERNOR HASN'T KICKED YOU OFF THE VOTER ROLLS. 

HAVE YOU GIVEN MONEY TO OBAMA? WILLARD HAS A BILLION DOLLARS TO SPREAD HIS BS. WE NEED YOUR HELP!   PLEASE CONTRIBUTE RIGHT HERE.

SPREAD THIS BLOG AROUND!! WE CAN'T LET THESE LOWLIFE RIGHT-WINGERS GET INTO OFFICE SO THEY CAN LOOT THIS COUNTRY EVEN MORE THAN THEY HAVE. 

LET'S GO!



ROMNEY THE LIAR ***EVISCERATED*** BY THE OBAMA CAMPAIGN ON HIS MEDICARE LIES

This is BEAUTIFUL! Spread this around!

Thursday, August 16, 2012

ROMNEY THE LIAR SAYS (IN EFFECT) "TRUST ME" ON HIS TAXES

That Willard can be so humorous at times. Today, without offering a shred of evidence, he asserted that at no time in the last ten years has he paid less than 13% of his income in taxes.

Notice he didn't say, "federal income taxes". We know he has to pay property taxes on his lavish homes, but we still don't know anything specific about his federal taxes because he refuses to show us anything. He is saying, "Trust me". To that, I say,


NO WILLARD, I DON'T TRUST YOU. I'VE SPENT COUNTLESS HOURS DOCUMENTING YOUR INCESSANT LIES ABOUT EVERY SUBJECT. YOU HAVE LIED AT EVERY CONCEIVABLE OPPORTUNITY. YOUR ENTIRE CAMPAIGN IS A MOUNTAIN OF OUT-AND-OUT LIES. WHY SHOULD I BELIEVE  ANYTHING YOU HAVE TO SAY WITHOUT PROOF?

And it looks like his running mate is no different. Paul Ryan has stated that because of his strong opposition to President Obama's stimulus program in 2009, that he requested NO funds for his district from the program.  Well, take a look at this:


Yes, folks, that's right: Ryan is requesting FEDERAL MONEY for his district,  to help create or retain 7,600 jobs. But--but--but--I thought the Federal government wasn't capable of producing or saving jobs. Paulie Boy says so.  Now he says that he didn't know this sort of thing was coming from the stimulus program, but if he did he would NEVER have asked, and golly gee gosh, the program failed anyway, don't ya know, and besides, it was my staff that did it! Yeah, that's the ticket! It was my staff.  (Some more details may be found here)

I have an alternative explanation:

RYAN IS LYING. JUST LIKE WILLARD WHEN HE SAYS THERE'S NOTHING UNUSUAL IN HIS TAXES.

This is what we're being offered, folks. Lies. Deceit. Hypocrisy. Moral and intellectual bankruptcy. This is the modern conservative movement bottoming out. Romney and Ryan are cut from the same cloth in many ways, although it can be said that while Romney believes in virtually nothing outside of his religious convictions, Ryan is a true fanatic, albeit a soft-spoken one.

The clock is ticking, America. DEMAND TO SEE ROMNEY'S TAXES. Don't take his word on ANYTHING.

He thinks we're suckers and chumps. Show him we're not.

And then show him the door.

Wednesday, August 15, 2012

ROMNEY THE LIAR GETS THE F-WORD FROM LAWRENCE O'DONNELL

As in possible FELONY. Wow. I mean, just watch this:

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ROMNEY KEEPS SPOUTING HIS ***RACIST*** WELFARE LIE

Willard knows his only chance at victory is to spread so many lies about Obama that he can sucker large numbers of low-information white voters into supporting him. Make a thinly-veiled, racist attack? Sure! No problem for Willard the Sociopath! The story of how Mittens is continuing to spread his vicious lies about welfare and work requirements is here.  Take a look if you've got the stomach for it:

It so happens that when Mitt Romney came to Ohio yesterday that I was able to catch one of his appearances, speaking to hundreds of coal miners in Beallsville. As expected, Romney hit President Obama for his “war on coal” (never mind that Romney in 2003 stood outside a coal-fired plan in Salem, Mass. and said that it “kills people.”) But he got his biggest applause during this riff:

I want you to know I heard something the other day that really surprised me... What I heard is that the president is taking the work requirement out of welfare. (Boos.) Yeah. We value work, our society which celebrates hard work, we look to a government to make it easier for jobs to be created and people to go to work. We do not look for a government that tries to find ways to provide for people who are not willing to work. And so I’m gonna put work back into welfare and make sure able-bodied people can get jobs.

Romney proceeded straight from this into a retelling of Obama’s “you didn't built that” line,  [another lie] but even that did not get the applause the welfare riff did. After the speech, several in the audience told me that their favorite part had been Romney’s calling out Obama for weakening welfare work requirements.  [My emphasis]  Yes, one of the more depressing parts of the job of being a political reporter is watching an audience fully absorb a blatant and knowing lie. Which is, of course, what this is. Countless factcheckers—here is one of many—have unequivocally rejected the assertion that Obama has ended the work requirement. His administration has instead granted more leeway to states, including several with Republican governors, to explore new ways to get people onto welfare into jobs, with the proviso that their new approaches must increase the share of recipients with jobs.

Let me explain something to you again. A lot of people already know these things, but just to remind everybody, here goes:

1.  Many, many white conservatives are convinced that the majority of people getting government help are black. This is false.

2.  Many, many white conservatives are convinced that most black Americans are on welfare. This is also false.

3.  Many, many white conservatives despise black Americans. Maybe not all of them do, or even the majority, but a huge number of them do.

4.  One of the bedrock right-wing beliefs in this country is this: "The Ni**ers are taking my money and just lying around doing nothing but living off my hard work." 

5.  Willard and his advisers know these things. But rather than correct these false ideas, THEY'RE PLAYING INTO THEM. Willard is DELIBERATELY  stirring up the ugly fires of white racial hatred. The assertion that Obama just wants to give people welfare without asking for work requirements is a DAMNED LIE.  It is a DIRECT  appeal to every sick right-wing idea about welfare. Willard doesn't give a DAMN about the fact it's a lie. He'll use ANY argument to win himself votes.

Please, please, PLEASE help us beat back this son of a bitch. Please. GIVE MONEY TO OBAMA  (right here). Spread this site to everyone you know. Don't let this predator get away with this garbage.

The country you save will be your own.

Tuesday, August 14, 2012

ROMNEY THE LIAR'S RUNNING MATE WILL SPELL OUT THEIR TAX PLANS ***AFTER*** THE ELECTION(!)

Is this supposed to be a joke?

The Romney campaign is willing to discuss its proposals on taxes "in the light of day," vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan said Tuesday evening -- just not until after the election.

Multiple tax policy analysts have concluded that Mitt Romney's tax plan -- to close loopholes and reduce taxes for the wealthy -- means higher taxes for most people in order for the math to work.  Brit Hume of Fox News asked Ryan to counter that charge. "What we're saying is get rid of special interest loopholes and deductions that are uniquely enjoyed by the wealthy to lower the tax rates for everybody," Ryan said.

But lowering middle-class tax rates, if coupled with eliminating key deductions, could lead to an effective tax increase, the cornerstone of the analyses of Romney's tax plan.  Hume pressed for specifics.

"That is something that we think we should do in the light of day, through Congress," Ryan told Hume, promising to "have a process for tax reform so that we do this in the front of the public. So no, the point I'm trying to say is, we want feedback from Americans about what priorities in the tax code should be kept, and what special interest loopholes we want to get rid of." [My emphases]

In other words, Paulie Boy is saying, "Trust Us".

Trust you? I wouldn't trust you two any farther than I could throw you.

Trust us?? As I said--is that supposed to be a joke?!?

Oh, and Paulie Boy--

TELL WILLARD TO REVEAL HIS TAX RETURNS IF HE WANTS TRUST.


ROMNEY THE LIAR CONTINUES TO TELL HIS ***DAMNED*** LIE ON MEDICARE

When you're dealing with an amoral, lying, sociopathic lowlife like Willard, you keep hearing the same lies over and over no matter how many times they get refuted. Now Willard is claiming AGAIN that Obama is "cutting Medicare benefits by $716 billion", or as he recently said,  stealing Medicare benefits. Here, AGAIN, is the truth of the matter:

Cuts made in the Affordable Care Act are to future growth  and come from reimbursement reductions to hospitals, Medicaid prescription drugs and private insurance plans under Medicare Advantage. Ryan’s cuts come from shifting Medicare from its current form  to subsidies for seniors to buy care themselves. [My emphases.]

It is Willard's dead-eyed running mate that wants to smash Medicare and Medicaid to pieces. Remember, BTW, that Little Paulie-Boy's destruction of the social safety net is NOT for the sake of balancing the budget. It's to shovel more money into the pockets of Little Paulie Boy and Willard. Ryan's first attempt at a budget, which was laughed out of town, didn't balance the budget until the 2060s. And no, I'm not joking. I think his second attempt balanced the budget in 2040. Again, I'm not joking.

Willard is simply LYING  about Obama's Medicare plans.
Don't let him get away with it! And don't let him ignore this question:


HEY WILLARD! WHAT'S IN YOUR TAX RETURNS THAT'S SO BAD IT WOULD DESTROY YOUR CANDIDACY IF IT WERE REVEALED? C'MON! YOU CAN TELL ME!


Monday, August 13, 2012

ROMNEY THE LIAR KEEPS THROWING LYING, RACIST FILTH IN BARACK OBAMA'S FACE

Willard the Sociopath continues to spread his outright damned lie  that Obama has dropped the work requirement for welfare benefits, even though he's been publicly exposed on it. The reason he continues to do this is simple, as Charles Pierce explains:

Over the weekend, I wrote that Willard Romney, once my governor and onetime human being, had surrendered what was left of his soul to the base of his party by choosing a zombie-eyed granny starver for his vice-president. Little did I know that, three days later, Willard would go diving into the deepest, oldest, foulest sewer in American politics to retrieve the blackened shards of Strom Thurmond's soul for a replacement.

There is nothing for it now but than to say, flat-out, that Willard Romney has decided that the only way he can become president is to become a racist and to appeal to the racist base of his party. This is the second ad in as many weeks centered on the general theme of The Negro President Wants To Give Your Money To The Black People Like Him....

You see, one of the great themes of conservative history in this country is known as The Ni**ers Are Taking My Money. Even though the majority of people getting public assistance in America are white, it doesn't matter. You can always stir up right-wing hatred by appealing to the image of lazy Negroes lying around living like kings on the welfare checks provided by hard-workin', God-fearin' white folks. Willard's not stupid. He's lying to get people like the racist right-wingers to vote for him.

And you say you STILL haven't sent money to President Obama's reelection fund? Well, let's take care of that right now. Just go here.

Folks, Romney has a BILLION DOLLARS in right-wing money to spread his lying filth. WE NEED YOUR HELP FOR REAL. Anything you can contribute would be good. Anything at all.

We have to stop this lying SOB and his little Medicare-killing sidekick from getting into office.

This country needs YOU.


ROMNEY THE LIAR'S RUNNING MATE: LET 'EM DIE!

Paul Ryan, as are all Republican candidates, is opposed to abortion. But check out the INSANE  extremes he's willing to go with it. The story is here.

Indeed, on abortion and women’s health care, there isn’t much daylight between Ryan and, say, Michele Bachmann. Any Republican vice-presidential candidate is going to be broadly anti-abortion, but Ryan goes much further. He believes ending a pregnancy should be illegal even when it results from rape or incest, or endangers a woman’s health.  [My emphasis.] He was a cosponsor of the Sanctity of Human Life Act, a federal bill defining fertilized eggs as human beings, which, if passed, would criminalize some forms of birth control  and in vitro fertilization.

That's right, Paulie! Let that slut die! She deserves it, after all, right? But wait, there's more! 

During [the 1998] campaign, Ryan also expressed his willingness to let states criminally prosecute women who have abortions. According to another Journal Sentinel article, he “would let states decide what criminal penalties would be attached to abortions. Ryan said he has never specifically advocated jailing women who have abortions or doctors who perform them, but added, ‘If it’s illegal, it’s illegal.’

I'm personally opposed to abortion, but I also recognize that I don't own women, and I sure as hell don't own their uteruses. My God, this is just utter fanaticism of the worst kind. 

Ask Romney the Liar to give as straight answer when you ask him if he agrees with this anti-woman lunacy.

Don't hold your breath waiting for a straight answer.

Sunday, August 12, 2012

ROMNEY THE LIAR'S HYPOCRISY SUMMED UP


(Thanks to Bally Balldez)

ROMNEY THE LIAR ***ALREADY*** TRYING TO DISAVOW RYAN'S VICIOUS BUDGET

Ah, that funny Willard! Always trying to have it both ways. Willard is now totally the puppet of the ultra-right and their little Golden Boy Paul "Kill off Medicare and Medicaid" Ryan. But he doesn't want to be too closely associated with Ryan's brutal budget proposals--the ones that shred the safety net, throw millions off of food aid, and shovel more money into the pockets of Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan. This is what Willard is saying now:

Within minutes  of tapping Paul Ryan as his vice presidential nominee, presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney was distancing himself from the congressman's controversial budget, which includes steep cuts to government programs and changing Medicare into a voucher-like program.

The Romney campaign sent out talking points on Saturday that made the case that he was his own man on matters of Medicare and Social Security and that he wouldn't be tied to a document he insisted he'd sign into law and once called "marvelous."

Did you see what Willard did there? He embraced Ryan, a smooth-talking right wing fanatic with the same voting record as Michele Bachmann  while stepping away from Ryan's ugly, Social Darwinist garbage. Not gonna work, Willard. You're stuck with him now.

And this video offers some enlightening information:



NO WONDER WILLARD IS CRAZY ABOUT YOUNG PAULIE. YOUNG PAULIE IS AS BIG OF A GRIFTER AND A CON MAN AS WILLARD IS.

And while we're at it...

I STILL WANT TO SEE YOUR DAMN TAX RECORDS, WILLARD!!

Friday, August 10, 2012

ROMNEY THE LIAR CHOOSES RYAN THE FRAUD AS HIS VP RUNNING MATE

Willard has once again succumbed to the will of the right-wing fanatics who have turned what was once the proud Republican Party of Eisenhower into the shrieking, ugly, hysterical party of Michele Bachmann. He has chosen as his vice presidential running mate the loathsome, despicable Paul Ryan. With the exception of a few months when he worked in the family business, Ryan has spent his entire adult life working in government in one capacity or the other. He has personally benefited from government help, such as the Social Security survivor benefits his family got after his father passed away. Ryan is the architect of the horrendous scheme to  destroy Medicare, wipe out Medicaid, and privatize Social Security.  And why is he for these things? To balance the budget? NO. He wants them crushed in order to give the rich--like himself--another massive tax cut!!  Charles Pierce, as so often is the case, says it best:

Paul Ryan is an authentically dangerous zealot. He does not want to reform entitlements. He wants to eliminate them. He wants to eliminate them because he doesn't believe they are a legitimate function of government. He is a smiling, aw-shucks murderer of opportunity, a creator of dystopias in which he never will have to live. This now is an argument not over what kind of political commonwealth we will have, but rather whether or not we will have one at all, because Paul Ryan does not believe in the most primary institution of that commonwealth -- our government. The first three words of the Preamble to the Constitution make a lie out of every speech he's ever given. He looks at the country and sees its government as something alien that is holding down the individual entrepreneurial genius of 200 million people, and not as their creation, and the vehicle through which that genius can be channelled for the general welfare...

He does not have the raw balls to explain to the country that, no, he does not believe in government - not the federal government, anyway, and not as it was originally conceived, as the fundamental expression of a political commonwealth. He's grandfathered his plan to chloroform Medicare so that, despite the deficit that he considers such an urgent problem, nobody alive today who might vote against him will be affected by it. In any way that will come to matter to the people whose lives his policies will make harder and more miserable, Paul Ryan is still the high-school kid living off Social Security survivor benefits and reading Ayn Rand by flashlight under the sheets.

There you have it, folks. Willard has signed on to the catastrophic, wildly destructive Ryan Budget. I say we make him regret it--BIG TIME. I say we wrap little Paulie around the throat of every Republican running for office this year--and win this thing going away.

Ryan is smooth and exceptionally deceitful. Don't underestimate him. But if we tell America what he really thinks and who he really is, we'll not only re-elect President Obama--we'll flush so many Teabaggers out of the Congress and the legislatures that the radical Right will be crippled for years. Why, America might actually recover from the problems it faces if we get these lunatics out of the way.

I say let's go after these clowns hammer and tongs--starting today--this hour --this minute --

RIGHT NOW !