[Y]ou go to the hospital, you get treated, you get care, and it’s paid for, either by charity, the government or by the hospital,” Romney said. “We don’t have people that become ill, who die in their apartment because they don’t have insurance.
Romney Rebuts Romney On Uninsured And Emergency Rooms | TPMDC
Ignorant, sociopathic or both? You make the call.
Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA) told a church group in Georgia last month that embryology, evolution, and the Big Bang theory were “lies straight from the pit of Hell.” … Now a spokeswoman for Broun, Meredith Griffanti tells CNN Broun will not comment on his remarks. But she added that they weren’t meant for public consumption and that Broun was “speaking off the record to a large church group about his personal beliefs regarding religious issues.
Rep. Broun Spox: Comments Decrying Science As Satanic Lie Were ‘Off Record’ | TPM LiveWire
That’s your answer? “You weren’t supposed to see that.”?
This clown is on the House Science Committee.
Just shut the country down and board it up. If this is how we’re going to run it, might as well close up shop.
The question now is whether the revelation that he was making stuff up matters. Is our system shallow enough — and in particular, are our media so much into appearances rather than reality — that it’s OK to lie to win an argument, with no further consequences?
A Test of the System - Paul Krugman
Romney is widely credited with having “won” the debate. By lying, apparently.
Winning by cheating is sadly a fact of life in politics, business, sports, personal relationships and saving your immortal soul (see my published works). Hopefully, however, the Obama campaign’s promise to hit Romney on his lies and evasions will not only be implemented fully, it’ll resonate.
GOODRIDGE: Governor Romney, tell me — what would you suggest I say to my 8 year-old daughter about why her mommy and her ma can’t get married because you, the governor of her state, are going to block our marriage?
ROMNEY: I don’t really care what you tell your adopted daughter. Why don’t you just tell her the same thing you’ve been telling her the last eight years.
Romney’s Insensitivity To LGBT People: ‘I Didn’t Know You Had Families’ | ThinkProgress (via Mike Monteiro)
I’m speechless.
Is it just me or is there a very strong Soviet/proletariat vibe here?
Yes. Yes there is.
There we go.
Asked about the inconsistency of Ryan attacking cuts his own plan embraced, Cantor begged off. “The assumption was that, um, the, the, ah, again — I probably can’t speak to that in an exact way so I better just not,” he said.
Romney-Ryan details remain elusive: Just ask a surrogate - Fortune Features (via Paul Krugman)
Uh-huh.
I’m not sure I understand the New York Times’ Alessandra Stanley’s complaint about MSNBC panelists calling Republican claims “lies” when, you know, it’s completely provable that they are, in fact, deliberately factually incorrect.
Ryan decried “$716 billion funneled out of Medicare by President Obama. An obligation we have to our parents and grandparents is being sacrificed, all to pay for a new entitlement we didn’t even ask for.” But the budget House Republicans passed this year, which Paul Ryan wrote, keeps Barack Obama’s Medicare cuts and adds another $205 billion on top.
Paul Ryan’s Hypocritical Attack on Barack Obama - Bloomberg
Josh Barro actually hits what I think is the perfect tone if you’re someone who still believes journalists must be unbiased bastions of truth. Yes, Obama has, in terms of the economy, been an underwhelming leader. But Romney and Ryan have failed to produce any evidence they’ll do any better — other than market faeries and trickle down — and, most importantly, they just lied through their teeth to you.
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Well played, Obama campaign. Well played. [h/t WaPo]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9fs01WTg11qzr73ro1_500.jpg)
Well played, Obama campaign. Well played. [h/t WaPo]
(Source: pantslessprogressive, via buffoonery)
Well, it’s easy to keep working when you’re a pompous, moralizing gasbag who just sits on his ass judging other people. It’s a little different if you’re digging ditches.
There is nothing Republicans would rather the American people forget more than George W. Bush, who doesn’t even have a bit-part at the GOP convention opening in Tampa.
But W’s ghost may be there, anyway.
Think about that. There is a living 2-term Republican president and he will not be speaking at the Republican National Convention. Neither will his father and neither will Dick Cheney. By contrast, both Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton will, of course, be speaking at the Democratic National Convention.
Way to run on your record, Republicans.
