New Republican Lies

[ejames01]

Who is Barry?

I don't doubt that Republicans haven't had their facts straight or lied from time to time. To call Fact Check 'highly regarded and nonpartisan' however, is a bit of a stretch. It is controlled by the Foundation that hired Barry to be a 'community organizer'. Let's just say it leans a little bit to the left.

[Jimaz]

We could devote at least a page of this thread to Michele Bachman's "psycho talk" . Some of what she says is fundamentalist gibberish, but other statements, like the one that suggests Obama caused swine flu, appear to be her running things up the flagpole to see how many idiots will salute. Alternet has 32 of her craziest statements.

That post had a missing link. Pun intended.

Psycho Talk: The 32 Craziest Things GOP Presidential Contender Michele Bachmann Has Said

[ghettopalmetto]

LIE: Cutting taxes on the wealthy creates jobs.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...Z1oH_blog.html

in years when the top marginal rate was more than 90 percent, the average annual growth in total payroll employment was 2 percent. In years when the top marginal rate was 35 percent or less—which it is now—employment grew by an average of just 0.4 percent.

http://www.americanprogress.org/issu...charticle.html

[maxx]

http://www.businessinsider.com/gover...pending-2011-7
"...

As you can see, from 2000 to 2008, under President Bush, Federal spending rose by $1.3 trillion, from $1.9 trillion a year to $3.2 trillion a year.
From 2009 to 2011, meanwhile, under President Obama, federal spending has risen by $600 billion, from $3.2 trillion a year to $3.8 trillion a year. It has also now begun to decline..."

[Jimaz]

GOP Rep. falsely claims ‘revenues’ had ‘nothing’ to do with U.S. downgrade

Rep. Allen West [[R-FL), a favorite among tea party Republicans, insisted Monday during an appearance on the conservative Fox News Channel that a refusal to increase government revenues through taxes had "nothing" to do with Standard & Poor's dropping America's credit rating last week.

Unfortunately for West, that's patently false, according to S&P's own press release announcing the ratings drop....

S&P, however, disagreed with West's assessment of what they actually said. In a press release, the credit ratings agency said that while deeper cuts are indeed needed, the downgrade came as a result of a political calculation: they no longer believe the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans will expire in 2012 as planned.

"We have changed our assumption on this because the majority of Republicans in Congress continue to resist any measure that would raise revenues, a position we believe Congress reinforced by passing the act,"...

But the fact of the matter remains: S&P plainly stated that revenue increases and Republican opposition were significant contributing factors to the downgrade, making West's statement patently untrue.

President Barack Obama has insisted that the Bush-era tax cuts for America's wealthiest citizens and corporations must expire as Republicans originally planned, but he extended them in 2010, instead vowing to make ending them a centerpiece of his campaign for reelection.

Approximately half of the current U.S. deficit would be eliminated if America's top-tier tax rates were allowed to revert to 1999 levels....

[oladub]

Jimaz, The article correctly points out that President Obama extended Bush's temporary tax cuts for the rich. However it states that "Approximately half of the current U.S. deficit would be eliminated if America's top-tier tax rates were allowed to revert to 1999 levels...." I put a ruler over my computer screen and estimated that the graph shows that tax cut would cut about 37% rather than "approximately half" of the deficit in 2011.

[lit joe]

Here the biggest lie Rick Perry won't win the whitehouse.

[Jimaz]

1 % Tax on all Financial Transactions.

Tip of the hat for the bump to coracle.

[maxx]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8uf-ZXLABE

These may not all be new lies Reich addresses.

[Jimaz]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8uf-ZXLABE

These may not all be new lies Reich addresses.

Thanks, Maxx. Robert Reich is a very knowledgeable and powerful speaker.

Yes, let's not forget the old lies that keep getting renewed. Let's make those links clickable:

• www.newbottomline.com
• faireconomy.org
• TheUptake.org

[Zacha341]

I'm just relieved to know that there are no Democratic lies. Whew! Good that the lying is 'exclusive' to one party. ------

[lit joe]

I'm just relieved to know that there are no Democratic lies. Whew! Good that the lying is 'exclusive' to one party. ------

I think the biggest one is obama thats a real Democratic.

[maxx]

Lie: Businesses are the engine of economic growth in the US. [Herman Cain]

[rb336]

Jimaz, The article correctly points out that President Obama extended Bush's temporary tax cuts for the rich. However it states that "Approximately half of the current U.S. deficit would be eliminated if America's top-tier tax rates were allowed to revert to 1999 levels...." I put a ruler over my computer screen and estimated that the graph shows that tax cut would cut about 37% rather than "approximately half" of the deficit in 2011.

I'm sure they meant "current deficit projection" so yes, in a totally nit-picking fashion they are "wrong", the rest depends on where you put your ruler. by 2013, it is clearly the predominant factor, by 2019 it is around 2/3.

[maxx]

Solyndra.

http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2011/0...oan-guarantee/

Lacey and Climate Guest Blogger on Sep 13, 2011 at 11:10 am by Stephen Lacey and Richard Caperton
It’s often claimed that the Solyndra loan guarantee was “rushed through” by the Obama Administration for political reasons. In fact, the Solyndra loan guarantee was a multi-year process that the Bush Administration launched in 2007.

[Of course when you can spend unlimited money spreading your version of things, why bother with the truth? Elections should not be wars of attrition.]

[maxx]

http://www.marketplace.org/topics/ec...e-bailout-back

"Paulson originally told Congress he'd use the money to buy mortgage-backed securities that were clogging the financial system. He'd create a market for them by holding a kind of reverse auction, buying them from the banks at the lowest prices they'd be willing to sell them for. But Paulson has abandoned that strategy and is now just handing the money directly to the banks and AIG -- all of which are using the money for their own purposes..."

[maxx]

If Vedder, the economist, is not a Rep. he is a conservative. His claim that not everyone has to go to college to succeed leaves out a few details mentioned here.
http://motherjones.com/mojo/2011/09/...ome-inequality

" Between 1999 and 2009, private research universities increased their per-student spending by about $7,500, to almost $36,000. Meanwhile, spending on the average public community college student stayed nearly flat, at slightly more than $10,000 per student. It should come as no surprise then that graduates of prestige schools continue to outpace other collegians..."

from wiki: On May 27, 2011, Vedder appeared on the long running news/public affairs TV program PBS NewsHour. He told host Jeffrey Brown that since "the cost of college is rising relative to the benefits of college" while "learning outcomes are stagnant or falling in this country", American society must "open up opportunities for people to consider a variety of different options after high school, one of which is college, but there are many others." Vedder also stated that "as many as one out of three college graduates today are in jobs that previously or historically have been filled by people with lesser educations, jobs that do not require higher-level learning skills, critical thinking skills, or writing skills or anything of that nature."<sup>[5]

[No need for the little people to learn critical thinking. Learn just enough to get a job and take orders]</sup>

[Jimaz]

Boehner’s office censors C-SPAN as GOP takes verbal beating

... As Hoyer railed against [his Republican colleagues] for failing to help working Americans, footage from C-SPAN went silent, then cut away.

Moments later, C-SPAN took to the Internet to explain that it wasn’t their doing, but someone working for House Speaker John Boehner [[R-OH)....

Moments later, someone at C-SPAN took to Twitter and explained: “C-SPAN has no control over the U.S. House TV cameras – the Speaker of the House does.”

It’s for reasons just like this, one might infer, that Boehner told C-SPAN back in February it would not be allowed control its own cameras.

So much for C-SPAN's alleged impartiality.

[maxx]

Romney: Bailouts are bad.



http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/pol...eive034570.php

[maxx]

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/02/us...to-agenda.html

"...Republicans are framing Keystone as an urgent jobs and energy project at a time of high unemployment and creeping gasoline prices, and trying to portray Mr. Obama as giving in to hard-left environmentalists in an election year at the expense of addressing both..."

Yes, "hard left environmentalists" like the Nebraskan ranchers and farmers who rightly acknowledge our dependency on the Oglalla aquifer that the keystone pipeline would go through. In some parts of Nebraska the water is only 2 feet below the surface. And all pipelines leak eventually.
http://www.wbur.org/npr/147413520/ra...n-energy-fight

[oladub]

The first Canadian shipment of 250,000 barrels of oil was just shipped to a Chinese customer at a premium to what California customers had been paying.

http://www.canada.com/business/Cenov...263/story.html

[maxx]

And there is no guarantee that any of the tar sand oil once the oil is wrung out of it at great environmental expense to the US would not go on the world market and away from the US. If we want temporary jobs that don't harm the environment, why not just hire a lot of people to dig holes and then fill them in? Our air and water would at least be safe. The Keystone pipeline is strictly a give-away to the oil companies. And how much energy will it take to get the oil out of that sludge? There is already a pipeline from Canada to OK. Did anyone notice its effect on the unemployment rate when it was built?

[Big Dog]

None of the keystone oil is for US consumption. It is to sell worldwide at a large profit, for the already bulging oil companies. It appears, big oil runs our gov't. IMO.

[maxx]

Thank you, Capt. Obvious. Big oil, big coal, big pharma and any other huge corporation. The answer: campaign finance reform. Get big money out of our elections.

[Jimaz]

These are not new but still funny: Jon Stewart's Fox News' False Statements.