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Jeff In Milwaukee

(13,992 posts)
Wed Aug 29, 2012, 10:37 PM Aug 2012

Looks like Ryan is just repeating their litany of lies...

Just repeated the Solyndra canard. The loans were initiated under George W. Bush.

Repeated the Janesville GM Plant closing lie (closed under Bush)

Claimed he got "everything he wanted" in the stimulus -- not even close.

Now claiming that the government is in charge of health care.

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Looks like Ryan is just repeating their litany of lies... (Original Post) Jeff In Milwaukee Aug 2012 OP
eddie voted for the stimulus corkhead Aug 2012 #1
Here's comes the Medicare lie... Jeff In Milwaukee Aug 2012 #2
right on cue corkhead Aug 2012 #3
He's going to preserve Medicare... Jeff In Milwaukee Aug 2012 #4
Right on cue. KaryninMiami Aug 2012 #5
The debates will take care of most of this bullshit Sugarcoated Aug 2012 #11
Holy shit, he is lying about EVERYTHING!!! n/t Blaukraut Aug 2012 #6
And you're surprised because.... Jeff In Milwaukee Aug 2012 #10
But, we have a great spokesman in the Potus and Veep Sugarcoated Aug 2012 #16
Can't wait for debate time, David Axelrod cal04 Aug 2012 #7
The media and fact-checkers better be all over this BS! ESPECIALLY the Medicare lie. n/t jenmito Aug 2012 #8
Slap dick speech Floyd_Gondolli Aug 2012 #9
We don't have that much time, Ryan says... Jeff In Milwaukee Aug 2012 #12
First reference to the "You didn't build that lie" Jeff In Milwaukee Aug 2012 #13
He's in the Repub delusional bubble Sugarcoated Aug 2012 #14
I can't wait!!! cheezmaka Aug 2012 #15
did he mention that abortion should be illegal, even in cases of rape? nt MariaM83 Aug 2012 #17
One of the biggest lies Sugarcoated Aug 2012 #18
I was pretty amused by that line, too... Jeff In Milwaukee Aug 2012 #19
Oh, they'll "take care" of the weak Proud Liberal Dem Aug 2012 #20

Jeff In Milwaukee

(13,992 posts)
4. He's going to preserve Medicare...
Wed Aug 29, 2012, 10:40 PM
Aug 2012

except that his plan bankrupts it eight years earlier. Just in time for the vouchers to kick in, so it disappears altogether.

KaryninMiami

(3,073 posts)
5. Right on cue.
Wed Aug 29, 2012, 10:41 PM
Aug 2012

"Medicare is a promise and we will honor it". I do hope the Obama ad team is taking careful notes. This is going to be their main lie. They will use this for the rest of the campaign if we don't put an end to it. Next week is the chance to do this.

Sugarcoated

(7,722 posts)
11. The debates will take care of most of this bullshit
Wed Aug 29, 2012, 10:47 PM
Aug 2012

Obama is really good at explaining, and he seems honest to people . . . because he is being honest. And Biden will do the same
in his honest, direct and passionate way. Facts are pesky little things.

Jeff In Milwaukee

(13,992 posts)
10. And you're surprised because....
Wed Aug 29, 2012, 10:46 PM
Aug 2012

Let's face it. They have to make you a) forget what happened from 2000-2008 b) forget that Republicans have been blocking everything and c) not pay attention to what they're planning to do.

BTW. Just lied about how much debt Obama created - not more than any other President.

Sugarcoated

(7,722 posts)
16. But, we have a great spokesman in the Potus and Veep
Wed Aug 29, 2012, 10:55 PM
Aug 2012

and a professional smart campaign team who will respond. Not only that, but it's so over-the-top alternate-reality that normal, reasonable undecideds will see these clowns as liars. People can see what the President is and what he's done.

cal04

(41,505 posts)
7. Can't wait for debate time, David Axelrod
Wed Aug 29, 2012, 10:44 PM
Aug 2012

I know you guys are taking lots of notes on all these lies

Bob Cesca ‏
Good luck @Politifact and @factcheckdotorg -- you'll be working overtime on this speech.

David Axelrod
https://twitter.com/davidaxelrod

Again, Ryan blames Obama for a GM plant that closed under Bush. But then, they did say they wouldn't "let fact checkers get in the way."

Ryan, who voted for two wars that weren't paid for, two budget-busting tax cuts and a unpaid for Medicare Rx program, moralizing about debt?

As a member of the commission, didn't Ryan voted AGAINST the Simpson-Bowles plan?

https://twitter.com/davidaxelrod

Jeff In Milwaukee

(13,992 posts)
12. We don't have that much time, Ryan says...
Wed Aug 29, 2012, 10:48 PM
Aug 2012

Of course, because your core demographic of old white men is dying off. If they don't win in 2012, they're history.

Jeff In Milwaukee

(13,992 posts)
13. First reference to the "You didn't build that lie"
Wed Aug 29, 2012, 10:50 PM
Aug 2012

Man, for a second there, I thought he was going to forget it.

Sugarcoated

(7,722 posts)
14. He's in the Repub delusional bubble
Wed Aug 29, 2012, 10:52 PM
Aug 2012

where they make shit up, repeat it over and over, maybe even believe it. That's what only dealing with wingnut news outlets for so long do to their minds.

cheezmaka

(737 posts)
15. I can't wait!!!
Wed Aug 29, 2012, 10:54 PM
Aug 2012

President Obama and the whole DNC will be "ALL OVER THIS"! As for Paul Ryan, I'm gonna let Joe Biden handle him...

Jeff In Milwaukee

(13,992 posts)
19. I was pretty amused by that line, too...
Wed Aug 29, 2012, 11:17 PM
Aug 2012

Apparently the Catholic Ryan didn't read the Catholic Bishops letter on his budget plan. They used the word "cruel" to describe it.

Proud Liberal Dem

(24,406 posts)
20. Oh, they'll "take care" of the weak
Wed Aug 29, 2012, 11:53 PM
Aug 2012

as soon as that pesky "democracy" and "government" thing is done away with.

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