Tag: Republican Lies
Mitt Doesn’t Know the Difference Between a Tax and a Deduction
Mitt Romney seems unclear on the concept of personal income tax.
“I did go back and look at my taxes and over the past ten years I never paid less than 13%. I think the most recent year is 13.6 or something like that. I paid taxes every single year,” Romney said…”Harry Reid’s charge is totally false. I am sure waiting for Harry to put up who it was that told him what he says they told him – I don’t believe it for a minute by the way – but every year I paid at least 13% and if you add in addition the amount that goes to charity, why, the number gets well above 20%.”
If Mitt considers what he gives to the Mormon Church to be a tax, then he must consider all the money he doesn’t get to spend as taxes
First of all, I checked my 2011 return and my actual tax rate was 17.7%. That’s how much the IRS expected me to pony up over the course of the year, with my various deductions, except I didn’t take enough out of my earnings as I went along and had to stroke a check to send in with my return for the remainder.
And I was happy to do it, if only to save those job creators like Mitt Romney from paying even more on their personal incomes, since it’s their personal incomes and not their businesses that they use to create jobs. At least, that’s what I’m told by every Republican ever.
But what really catches my ear in what Willard said today is the part about how, when you add in what he gave to the Mormon Church, why, the number gets well above 20 percent.
Of Course Romney and Ryan are Lying. That’s Nicer Than the Truth
Republicans have a core problem, and Michael Tomasky brilliantly uncovered it. They have to lie, he says, because the truth is that they don’t care about people like us. They know their policies won’t work for us but if they convince us they will, we will let them keep on feeding on us.
Tomasky begins by saying you couldn’t write a novel where someone like Romney picks as his running mate someone like Ryan, who comes from a prominent family in the road construction business that made most of its money from government contracts.
A fiction editor would say, “Come on, Tomasky, this is just too heavy-handed.”
It’s tricky business to trick us. You have to lie.Especially if the same candidate and his running mate were attacking the other guy with a lie that specifically distorted what he’d said about, of all things, roads and bridges! (“You didn’t build that.”) Grandpappy Ryan did exactly what Obama says other people did to help small businesses thrive. He built the roads. And he was paid to do so by government road contracts. Forget fiction. That’s even too pat for Hollywood.
Even George W. Bush needed help from strategist Paul O’Neill with his talking points, running as he was, on the same trickle-down voodoo economics that failed to win re-election for his father, George H.W. Bush. It’s tricky business to trick us. You have to parse your words carefully. Or to put it another way, you have to lie.
Van Jones: Don’t Underestimate Paul Ryan
Ryan is THE most effective weapon the other side has. He makes the argument for austerity with passion, poise and skill. He is a true believer. Vice President Biden better eat his Wheaties before the debate.
— Van Jones, former Green Energy Czar in the Obama administration, who was targeted by Glenn Beck after publicly referring to Republicans as “assholes.” Jones has since taken a lead role at MoveOn.org’s Rebuild the Dream initiative, and is launching a campaign to personalize and energize progressive election efforts through works by artists and musicians, along with narratives from people on the receiving end of failed Republican policies.
Romney Turns to Bush/Cheney Team for Economic Advice
4 out of 4
Number of Romney economic advisors who were on the Bush/Cheney economic team: 1. Vin Weber, N. Gregory Mankin, Kevin A. Hassett, R. Glenn Hubbard. As we have said before, if you liked Bush, you’ll love Romney.
So Many Things to Do Before the RNC Convention
I’m redoing my breasts and I timed my surgery around it because I wanted to make sure I wasn’t going to be recovering during that time.
“Mary,” a high-end professional escort interviewed in Tampa, who is gearing up for the Republican National Convention at the end of August. “Mary” has also revamped her web site to offer not just sex but “experiences.”
Coulter: The Point of Hannity’s Show is to Elect Romney
Anyone who donates to Mitt Romney, and I mean the big donors, ought to say if Andrea Saul isn’t fired and off the campaign tomorrow, they are not giving another dime, because it is not worth fighting for this man if this is the kind of spokesman he has…There’s no point in you doing your show, [emphasis added] there’s no point in going to the convention and pushing for this man if he’s employing morons like this.
Ann Coulter, exploding on the Sean Hannity Show over another gaffe from the Romney campaign, but also putting to rest the notion that FOX News is anything but a vehicle for advancing Republicans and the conservative agenda. When she said that if Romney can’t run a better campaign then there is no point in Hannity doing his show, she acknowledged that the purpose of Hannity’s show is to elect Romney and other Republicans.
Postal Service Can Brave Rain, Sleet, Snow, Even Dog Bites — But Not Congress
Normally, this is the kind of number-based story that would go in our Enumerati section. If it were, it would look something like this:
60— Number of bills Congress has introduced to rename post offices, 17% of all bills passed
0— Number of bills Congress has introduced to address the Post Office’s insolvency
But the story needs more explanation, and ABC’s Amy Bingham reported the infuriating facts.
It’s not the Post Office that’s broken. It’s Congress.
In the 18 months the 112th Congress has been sworn in, the House has introduced 60 bills to rename post offices. Thirty-eight have passed the House and 26 have become law. During those 18 months, the House has produced 151 laws, 17 percent of which have been to rename post offices, according to Congressional Democrats.
Not a single bill has come to the House floor aimed at reforming a Postal Service, which is bleeding billions of dollars because of Congressional mandates.
What Bingham meant when she said “bleeding billions of dollars because of Congressional mandates” is something most Americans don’t know or understand. The reason the United States Postal Service (USPS) is in trouble is not because people pay bills online and it’s not because postal employees aren’t as service-oriented as the private sector (a claim of which I am unconvinced), and it’s damn sure not because of unions.
The reason the postal service is failing is because Congress set it up to do so in 2006.
