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Lyin’ Paul Ryan: I didn’t vote for the defense cuts I voted for

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I think Paul Ryan is trying to convince us that even though he voted for The Budget Control Act (which included sequestration cuts), he didn’t vote for the parts he didn’t like about the Budget Control Act, like the sequestration cuts. Here’s what he said after he voted “YEA” on this bill:

House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan issued the following statement after the Budget Control Act of 2011 passed the House of Representatives: “The Budget Control Act represents a victory for those committed to controlling government spending and growing our economy. I applaud Speaker Boehner’s leadership in stopping tax increases on job creators, rejecting President Obama’s demands for a blank check to keep borrowing, and advancing real spending cuts and controls. The agreement – while far from perfect – underscores the extent to which the new House majority has successfully changed Washington’s culture of spending. No longer can Washington endlessly spend money it does not have. While the immediate debt ceiling issue has been responsibly resolved, a spending-driven debt crisis remains a threat. To lift this crushing burden of debt and help spur job creation, policymakers must advance serious structural reforms to the largest driver of our debt: government spending on health care, including the President’s costly, partisan health-care overhaul. The Budget Control Act marks a positive step forward in getting government spending control, but much hard work remains.”

Watch him try to convince Norah O’Donnell that voting for a bill but being against parts of the bill you voted for is like not voting for the bill:


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O’Donnell isn’t buying it. Neither should we.

Think Progress: “The Budget Control Act, as passed, included both the roughly $600 billion in “sequestration” cuts that will happen if there’s no compromise on the budget by December as well as the $487 billion of military-supported cuts that will take place regardless. The fact that Ryan may have wished that the bill didn’t contain said defense cuts does not absolve him of the fact that he and 201 other Republicans voted for the bill as-passed.

“Moreover, Ryan’s statement after voting for the bill contained not a single word of criticism about the defense cuts. As O’Donnell correctly noted, Ryan said the bill “represents a victory for those committed to controlling government spending and growing our economy” and that “The agreement – while far from perfect – underscores the extent to which the new House majority has successfully changed Washington’s culture of spending.” It’s at best misleading, and at worst an outright lie, for Ryan to assert that voting for the Budget Control Act did not mean voting for defense cuts.”

Mitt Romney is constantly lying: the one about tax cuts for the one percent

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Mitt’s huge, fat whopper of a lie: “One of the absolute requirements of any tax reform that I have in mind is that people who are the high end, whether you call them the 1 percent, 2 percent, half a percent, the people at the high end will still pay the same share of the tax burden they’re paying now. I’m not looking for a tax cut for the very wealthiest.” — Mitt Romney on CBS’ Face the Nation 

Bob Cesca says “unless Romney just yesterday revised his tax plan, he lied about it on national television.” That’s based on [an] analysis from Citizens for Tax Justice [from] a couple weeks ago:

Romney wants to lower current tax rates for everyone by 20 percent. This benefits the wealthy most: Dropping the highest bracket from 35 percent to 28 percent, for example, yields a much bigger savings for those at the top than lowering the 15 percent bracket to 12 percent brings for taxpayers in that group.

Pat Garafalo explains: Romney himself has admitted that his tax plan can’t even be scored due to its lack of specificity. The few deductions he has mentioned would come nowhere close to covering the cost of his massive tax cut for the rich. And even if Romney did manage to close enough loopholes and eliminate enough deductions so that the rich were paying the same amount that they are today, the economy would have to grow at a record rate to keep his tax plan from adding to the deficit.

Your lamestream, liberal media

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Won’t someone think of Republican white men? Oh, wait…

If you feel like the Sunday morning political talk shows are overrun by Republican politicians, their surrogates and other right-wing spinners, you’re actually right, according to a study by Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR), a media watchdog group. FAIR’s magazine, Extra! tracked the breakdown of guests featured in one-on-one interviews and roundtable discussions on the four main Sunday morning talk shows, ABC’s “This Week,” NBC’s “Meet the Press,” CBS’s “Face the Nation” and “Fox News Sunday” from June 2011 to March 2012. The results skewed heavily Republican, white and male, with only token representation by blacks and Latinos, and virtually no appearances by guests outside of one of the two national political parties.

[...] It’s worth noting, also, that the liberals typically presented on these programs are mostly centrists with very few out-and-out progressives, leading FAIR to quip that “corporate media’s idea of a debate is conservative ideologues matched by centrist-oriented journalists.” Women and persons of color were wildly underrepresented in round tables. Women guests made up a mere 29 percent of panelists. Roundtable guests were 85 percent white, with 11 percent of guests being African-American and 3 percent Latino.

[The Raw Story]

In a diverse nation, with women comprising just over 50% of the population, why do Republican white men dominate our national media — still?

If you’re so inclined to contact the conservative white men who host the Sunday shows that celebrate conservative white men and their many opinions about non-white people and women (among other things), here’s contact information: 

Why I don’t watch Sunday morning TV

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Sunday morning TV roundup: Middle aged white men who have never been To #Egypt share their insights. — @BorowitzReport

But it’s worse than that.

Only middle aged Republican white men who have never been to Egypt share their insights this morning:

Atrios:

Face the Nation has John McCain giving us informed analysis of the situation in Egypt.

This Week has Ehud Barak, New Gingrich, and Tim Pawlenty giving us informed analysis of the situation in Egypt.

Meet the Press has Boehner, Schilling, and Atlanta’s Mayor Reed giving us informed analysis of the situation in Egypt.

Remarkably, no national Democrats will appear.

Document the atrocities!

When will all this liberal media bias stop?

 

Steve Benen: McCain attempts to pull off “the hard-to-execute flip-flop-flip”

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In other words, another Sunday talk show appearance for Juan McCain and another change of position on one of his “deeply held beliefs:”

“Ethanol is a joke,” he said Sunday on CBS’ “Face the Nation,” saying that programs promoting the corn-derived fuel are wasting millions.

That’s certainly a reasonable position to take, but it’s worth remembering that McCain went from being against ethanol (in 1999) to for it (in 2006) to against it again (in 2011), pulling off the hard-to-execute flip-flop-flip.