"IS THERE ANY LIMIT TO MITT ROMNEY'S DISHONESTY?"

And the answer to Greg Sargent's excellent question is NO:

Here’s a test case: The debate over Medicare — and Romney’s embrace of the Paul Ryan plan — is about to dominate the conversation. Romney is moving to get ahead of the story by accusing Obama of being the one who would “end Medicare as we know it.” Here’s the Romney campaign’s statement this morning:


 “There are two proposals on the table for addressing the nation’s entitlement crisis. Mitt Romney...has offered a solution that would introduce competition and choice into Medicare, control costs, and strengthen the program for future generations. President Obama has cut $500 billion from Medicare to fund Obamacare and created an unaccountable board with rationing power — all while America’s debt is spiraling out of control and we continue to run trillion-dollar deficits.


 “If President Obama’s plan is to end Medicare as we know it, he should say so. If he has another plan, he should have the courage to put it forward.”


[What is] interesting is the assertion that Obama has “cut $500 billion from Medicare” and created an “unaccountable board with rationing power” even as the deficit is “spiraling out of control.” That’s a reference to Obamacare’s efforts to curb spending with $500 billion in savings that are actually wrung from health care providers, not Medicare beneficiaries. That “unaccountable board,” meanwhile, is a reference to the Independent Payment Advisory Board, which is designed to make recommendations for reducing Medicare costs, and explicitly cannot recommend rationing.


Sargent has nailed it down: ROMNEY IS LYING ABOUT EVERY SINGLE ASPECT OF OBAMA'S MEDICARE POLICY. Every. Single. One. Romney has endorsed Paul  Ryan's horrible proposal to DESTROY MEDICARE and replace it with "vouchers" that will cover less than half of what Medicare provides and force elderly people to negotiate their health care plans with private insurance companies. It would be a catastrophe. Romney is doing preemptive lying to blunt criticism of his wretched policies. Will the media EVER call him on his lies?


Only if we make them do it.

ROMNEY THE LIAR'S CAMPAIGN WILL BE THE MOST HORRENDOUS IN U.S. HISTORY

Something we need to remember: Willard will wage the filthiest, ugliest, most lying campaign in American history:

2008 was nothing compared to what’s coming once R-money’s Pretty Hate Machine is fully operational. The side effect of how soul-destroyingly horrid the attacks will be is to try to depress everyone else into not voting at all. Only by lowering the turnout to the worst levels ever seen in modern election history will Romney be able to win. It’s the only shot he’s got, and everyone knows it at this point.

Romney has proven utterly incapable of making a positive case for himself. His campaign against his Republican rivals has been unrelentingly vicious. And remember: ultra-right wing reactionaries with BILLIONS of dollars at their disposal will be behind him. Willard's campaign will be NOTHING except:

LIES

SMEARS

SLANDERS

APPEALS TO HATRED

He may look weak now, but don't underestimate him: he's a ruthless sociopath who will do anything to win. If we want to save America from Willard and his friends, it's going to take a maximum effort on our part. There's no other way we can approach it.

We MUST win. There is no alternative.

ROMNEY THE LIAR PROPOSING UTTERLY DISHONEST TAX SCHEME

From the fine folks at Crooks and Liars, here is an account of Romney's ludicrously bad tax proposal and Willard's lies concerning it. If this doesn't make you afraid of this guy, I don't know what would:

Two weeks ago, Mitt Romney unveiled what he has repeatedly deemed a "bold" plan to deliver a 20 percent across-the-board tax cut. As it turns out, the plan isn't so bold after all. For starters, it's largely a retread of the 15 percent tax cut scheme Bob Dole rode to defeat in 1996. And after a wave of analyses showed Romney's plan would produce oceans of red ink while giving the rich yet another payday courtesy of the U.S. Treasury, Mitt admitted today that his plan "can't be scored" because "I haven't laid out all of the details." 


As The Hill reported today, the GOP frontrunner is now essentially claiming he deserves an "A" because the dog ate his homework: "So I haven't laid out all of the details about how we're going to deal with each deduction, so I think it's kind of interesting for the groups to try and score it, because frankly it can't be scored, because those kinds of details will have to be worked out with Congress, and we have a wide array of options." As Ezra Klein's Wonkblog rightly concluded: "Let's be clear on this: A tax plan that can't be scored because it doesn't include sufficient details is not a plan. It's a gesture towards a plan, or a statement of intended direction, or perhaps an unusually wonky daydream. But it's not a plan."


Romney's may not be a plan, but it is a recipe. At a time of record income inequality, the lowest federal tax burden in 60 years, and large budget deficits without listing all of his ingredients, Mitt Romney is just offering a recipe for exploding national debt and a windfall for the wealthy... Romney's tax cuts are even more expensive [than Bush's], clocking in at a cost of more than $10.7 trillion over the next decade and reducing revenue to a paltry 15 percent of GDP, according to Linden. Balancing the budget on those terms, as Romney claims he will do, would be next to impossible.

Mittens promises to cut taxes, massively increase the defense budget, and leave programs for the elderly intact, at least for now. Willard is fully aware that his tax proposal can't possibly balance the budget or reduce the deficit. His plan isn't intended to do those things. First, it's intended to sucker gullible people out there into thinking they're getting a windfall. Second, it's intended to channel massive amounts of money into the pockets of Willard and his pals. From  CNN Money:

Mitt Romney's new tax plan would mean lower taxes for most Americans. But some would benefit more than others. According to a new analysis from the Tax Policy Center, wealthy Americans would see their taxes fall precipitously under Mitt Romney's new plan -- which scraps the Alternative Minimum Tax and cuts marginal tax rates by 20%.


Assuming the Bush tax cuts are extended, the Romney plan would give the top 1% of earners an average tax cut of $150,000, a 7.8% reduction in their average federal tax rate, according to the Tax Policy Center. Americans in the middle 20% of income-earners would get an average tax cut of $810, a 1.4% tax rate reduction. Those making $1 million or more would receive an average tax cut of $[1]50,000, an 8.1% tax rate reduction, while the average American would get $2,800, a 3.5% rate drop. 

The plan would also add to the deficit -- $480 billion in calendar year 2015 alone, according to the study.

Adding $480 billion to the deficit in one year?!? And Romney claims his plan is fiscally responsible? If Willard wins and the Teabagger fanatics in Congress push his tax plan through, catastrophe is the only outcome. Romney the Liar is trying to sell us all snake oil so that he and his cronies can line their pockets.


"Reduce the deficit? Balance the budget"?


ON WHAT PLANET???

ROMNEY THE LIAR LIES REGULARLY ABOUT OBAMA AND IRAN

Two statements for your consideration. First, Willard yesterday:


"This is a president who has failed ... to communicate that military options are on the table and in fact in our hand. And that it’s unacceptable to America for Iran to have a nuclear weapon."


Second, President Obama last week:


"In the conversations I've had over the course of three years, and over the course of the last three months and three weeks, what I've emphasized is that preventing Iran from getting a nuclear weapon isn't just in the interest of Israel, it is profoundly in the security interests of the United States, and that when I say we're not taking any option off the table, we mean it ... I think that the Israeli government recognizes that, as president of the United States, I don't bluff. I also don't, as a matter of sound policy, go around advertising exactly what our intentions are. But I think both the Iranian and the Israeli governments recognize that when the United States says it is unacceptable for Iran to have a nuclear weapon, we mean what we say."

Moreover, the President has said the same thing REPEATEDLY. Again and again he has stressed that he has taken no options off the table and that Iran's acquisition of a nuclear weapon is unacceptable. Is Willard confused? Forgetful? Ignorant? No--

HE'S JUST LYING


Thank you to A. Sullivan

ROMNEY THE LIAR CALLS OBAMA A "CRONY CAPITALIST" BUT IT'S WILLARD WHO GOT THE SUBSIDIES

Oh my. It seems that Willard, while claiming to reject government, has a soft spot for government subsidies that go to his investments: 

[A] steel company in which Bain invested, GS Industries, went bankrupt in 2001, causing more than 700 workers to lose their jobs, health insurance and a part of their pensions. Before going under, the company paid large dividends to Bain partners and expanded its Kansas City plant with the help of tax subsidies. [Emphasis added] It also sought a $50-million federal loan guarantee. 


"This is corporate welfare," said Tad DeHaven, a budget analyst with the Washington-based Cato Institute, which encourages free-market economic policies. DeHaven, who is familiar with corporate tax subsidies in Indiana and other states, called the incentives Steel Dynamics received "an example of the government stepping into the marketplace, picking winners and losers, providing profits to business owners and leaving taxpayers stuck with the bill."


Read the whole article to get the full flavor of Romney and his friends' manipulation of government. And remember this: Romney has no intention of shaking the system up.


HE'S TOO BUSY SHAKING IT DOWN.

ROMNEY THE LIAR CAUGHT ON TAPE IN ANOTHER LIE

Just watch. And see, once again,  if Romney isn't the most brazen liar to run for office in your lifetime.

ROMNEY THE LIAR'S ONLY PRINCIPLE: HE THINKS HE'S ENTITLED TO BE PRESIDENT

Gene Lyons nails it right on the head here. Why does Willard flip-flop and lie about everything? That's because his only true conviction is that he deserves to be president. And why does he "deserve" it? Because he's successful--and you're not:

On the “Today” show, Romney explained that people concerned with income inequality are simply jealous. “You know, I think it’s about envy,” he said. “I think it’s about class warfare. When you have a president encouraging the idea of dividing America based on the 99 percent versus 1 percent—and those people who have been most successful will be in the 1 percent — you have opened up a whole new wave of approach in this country, which is entirely inconsistent with the concept of one nation under God.”


Got that, peasants? God’s behind the 13.9 percent tax rate Romney paid on $43 million he earned in 2010 while technically unemployed. Anybody who thinks differently is merely eaten up with resentment. In my experience, the more money people inherit, the more they’re tempted to lecture others about talent and hard work. And to cry the blues about the indignity of paying taxes. 


Romney’s air of personal superiority appears to be the one topic about which the poor dork is absolutely sincere. That’s what makes him such a terrible liar. He’s almost frantic with it, like a golden retriever with his ball. Even with the mute button on the TV pressed, you can almost hear him panting.


Heh heh. Read the whole thing--and be enlightened.