Oh Really? Well, if the shoes of a Lying Liar-Ass Liar happen to fit on Congressman Paul Ryan, we tend to say he's got Liar Feet. And Lying Eyes. And a Lying Mouth.
But apparently not Jeb Bush, whose just escaped from the woods of "Obama should've been spanked" to release this little turd of not wisdom.
First, Bush defended Ryan’s assertion that President Obama is to blame for a GM plant that closed in 2008 under President George W. Bush. “Right there at that plant, candidate Obama said: ‘I believe that if our government is there to support you … this plant will be here for another hundred years,’” Ryan said in his speech. “That’s what he said in 2008. Well, as it turned out, that plant didn’t last another year. It is locked up and empty to this day.” But Jeb Bush claimed that this was not “misleading.”
“No not at all,” Bush said. “That’s exactly — those were the words Barack Obama used. It was a campaign promise and it is yet another campaign promise unfulfilled.”
The problem here is that then Candidate Obama
didn't promise to Keep the Janesville Plant open, he only suggested
it might be possible.
And I believe that if our government is there to support you, and give you the assistance you need to re-tool and make this transition, that this plant will be here for another hundred years. The question is not whether a clean energy economy is in our future, it’s where it will thrive. I want it to thrive right here in the United States of America; right here in Wisconsin; and that’s the future I’ll fight for as your president
That's not really a promise, and he didn't really "break" it - the Plant was closed
before he was even inaugurated and he had a chance to provide a government that "is there to support you" or "give you the assistance you need".
The Plant Closed On His Brother's Watch, not Obama's.
But facts like this don't seem to penetrate the Cone-of-Untruth that surrounds the GOP.
Besdies this Bush tried to defend Ryan's criticism of the President on the Simpson-Bowles commission, when he himself sat on that commission and voted against it's recommendations.
“He voted against it because it did not have any aspect of it that included entitlement reform, which is the most pressing budget issue that our country faces,” Bush said. “And the Ryan budget does deal with that over the long haul.”
Bush said the charges that Paul was dishonest in his speech are misguided: “To suggest that Paul Ryan is not completely truthful when he’s the only guy in Washington, D.C. that’s actually put out a comprehensive plan with a budget attached to it, I think is wrong.”
Actually no, it's not wrong. First of all there
was entitlement reform included in the Simpson/Bowles plan, and
Ryan Opposed It.
Ryan took part in the discussions and played a constructive role in talking through the issues, but he never showed any inclination to support the commission's work, nor did he show an interest in finding a compromise, according to two former commission staffers who declined to be identified given the sensitivity of the negotiations.
The middle-ground Medicare overhaul—which kept traditional Medicare as an option for seniors—did not make it into the final Bowles-Simpson commission report, and it’s impossible to know if it would have passed through the committee if it did.
“There was only one brief discussion on premium support—the bipartisan compromise version with traditional Medicare as the default. It did not get much attention,” Rivlin said in an interview.
But it begs the question of why Ryan wouldn’t get behind this Medicare reform in 2010, only to then back it in another, less-likely-to-pass form in 2011. And on the campaign trail, he has been emphatic about the need to fix Medicare sooner rather than later.
Besides that, Ryan wasn't the "only guy" to put out a plan and a budget in Congress. The
House Progressive Caucus crafted a budget that comes into balance in
just ten years, which is decades sooner than Ryan's plan.
It's just that that Budget Requires completely repealing all of his brother's tax cuts.
So now Jeb Bush has himself told three lies in an attempt to cover of two lies by Ryan.
One wonders how many more Lies he'll have to generate as he speaks at the GOP Convention tonight to paper over Ryan's Lies about Medicare, Or his Lies about Welfare Waivers, Or his Lies about the Stimulus, or his Lies about his own Budget, or his Lies about Jobs, or his Lies about his own Stand on Reproductive Rights, or his lies about Education, and his Lies about Food Stamps.
I wonder...
Vyan