A great piece by Jonathon Chait showed up on my own search for 'Paul Ryan; liar' this morning. He makes great points:
At the political level, Ryan’s notion of responsibility beggars belief. Under the Bush administration, Republicans — with Ryan’s support and often active leadership — systematically destroyed the fiscal position of the federal government. They voted for large tax cuts, a new entitlement, wars, and twice repealed pay-as-you-go budget rules that would have required them to pay for all these things. As a result, when Obama took office at the outset of the economic crisis, he inherited an annual deficit of well over a trillion dollars.
Obama tried on numerous occasions to craft bipartisan agreements to reduce the long-term debt. Ryan, using the enormous intra-party influence he had amassed, crushed those agreements at every turn. Ryan voted against the Bowles-Simpson deficit commission, killing its prospects. To complete the dishonesty, Ryan referred to the debt commission he served on and helped kill as “they,” not “we.” (Ryan’s defenders sometimes assert that he only voted against the plan because it failed to include privatized Medicare, but in fact Ryan opposed a compromise that would do that, as well.) Ryan killed a bipartisan Senate plan and also killed a negotiated debt settlement between Obama and John Boehner.
This lying thing has Rove's name written all over it. It's going to take some ingenuity by those of us on teh internets to jump over the deluge of steaming piles being dumped every time one of his minions opens their mouths.
Join me under the Golden Turd.
It's been a huge relief so far to see a few articles finally use the L-word with the republicans this year. I know I'm not the only who's been a little heart-broken over the demise of true journalism in the name of balance this last decade. We need to bring these articles to the top of the lists. We can Google 'Mitt Romney lie' and 'Paul Ryan lie' from time to time as the idea pops in. We can write LTE's showing how shocked we are that they won't stop even after being called out.
It's going to take more than that. Hopefully someone more brilliant than I comes up with something good. I'm ready to fight, though. Nothing could possibly make me more outraged than having that worm get into the oval office through shear lies and racism. Hmm. Maybe I'll go Google 'Romney racist' now.