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The House GOP had to cancel Thursday's scheduled Obamacare Repeal/WeDon'tCare Replacement vote ... because they don't have enough votes for it to pass.
Dems won't vote for it because it's a draconian plan that gives billions of dollars in tax cuts to the top 0.5% while throwing the middle class and working poor under the bus. Moderate Republicans (an endangered species, to be sure) also worry about that, though a "softening" of some of the most draconian language appeased many of them.
Meanwhile, the right-wing extremists won't vote for WeDon'tCare because it isn't draconian enough. All those fetuses they don't want aborted? Welcome into the world ... but no health care for you!
Ryan, Trump & Co. managed to come up with a lose-lose proposal, one that every national medical society has panned as a potential disaster.
Among the health-related things Trump promised in the year leading up to his inauguration:
++ "We're going to have insurance for everybody."
++ "Everybody's got to be covered."
++ "We're going to come up with a new plan that's going to be better health care for more people at a lesser cost."
++ "You're going to end up with great health care at a fraction of the price."
And then he backs a plan that does none of that. I guess the only campaign promises this so-called president really cares about are the big, beautiful wall and the Muslim ban.
As John Oliver said: "He asked us, 'What do you have to lose?' And we're finding out every day."
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And speaking of Trumpian lies, here's an amazing interview he gave Time - READ IT - in which he defends his many lies by, well, lying some more.
And yet his sheeple are either so gullible or so afraid of him that they just keep lining up behind him. I've never seen anything like it.
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OK, on to something more fun ...
My NCAA tournament bracket is so broken that I've decided to take a mulligan and tee it up again.
Sweet 16
Michigan over Oregon
Kansas over Purdue
West Virginia over Gonzaga
Arizona over Xavier
Butler over North Carolina
UCLA over Kentucky
South Carolina over Baylor
Florida over Wisconsin
Elite 8
Kansas over Michigan
Butler over UCLA
Arizona over West Virginia
South Carolina over Florida
Final Four
Kansas over Butler
Arizona over South Carolina
National Championship
Kansas over Arizona
Somehow, the Jayhawks have mostly flown under the radar. They are too good for that, and I think Bill Self wins his second title.
Unless, of course, I'm wrong.
If so, I'll admit it. Which I guess means I can't be president of the United States.
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Showing posts with label Paul Ryan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Paul Ryan. Show all posts
Thursday, March 23, 2017
Thursday, September 6, 2012
Lyin' Ryan runs circles around truth-challenged pols
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Bees buzz, the moon orbits Earth, coaches yell, parents embarrass their kids ...
And politicians lie.
It's what they do. Oh, more genteel people call it "exaggerating" or "couching the truth" or "taking things out of context."
In other words, they lie.
The presidential campaign has been one lie after another. From what I have heard so far, Republicans have been quite a bit more truth-challenged, but the Dems are working hard at their convention this week to give the GOP a run for its money.
Bill Clinton's speech last night was masterful: a point-by-point, detail-filled refutation of the Republican case against Barack Obama. It was entertaining, too. He didn't need an empty chair to keep his audience enthralled for 45 minutes.
Clinton acted the part of the Myth Buster when it came to Republican lies about welfare, Obamacare, Medicare and the stimulus. It was a sensational performance.
Yet he lied, too. I couldn't believe it when he suggested that Obama embraced the Simpson-Bowles deficit plan ... because that simply isn't true. It was kind of like Paul "Lyin'" Ryan a week earlier blaming Obama for America getting its credit rating downgraded -- even though Congressional Republicans, egged on by tea-partiers, were the ones who refused to raise the debt ceiling, leading directly to the downgrade.
My former employer, AP, got criticized for including the Monica Lewinsky affair in its fact-checking story about Clinton's speech. It was in response to Clinton accusing Republicans of lying. And it was perfectly fair territory. Clinton has become something of a hero these days, even to some GOPers, but history knows he lied and lied and lied and lied as president.
Yep, they're all liars. And here's a new low ... or is it a new high? (I don't know how to score these things.)
Lyin' Ryan claimed his best marathon time was "two hours and fifty something." When I heard that, I thought, "Wow, that's really fast!"
Fast, yes. And loose with the facts, too.
According to Runner's World magazine, which keeps track of such things, Ryan only ran one marathon, in 1990. He completed the 26.2 miles in 4 hours, 1 minute, 25 seconds. Which is pretty close, a mere 1 hour-plus off his claim.
A few things:
1. I guess this means Runner's World now must be part of the mainstream liberal media.
2. How pathetic that he felt a need to lie about something as unimportant as his marathon time. I thought Mitt Romney was the big liar on that ticket, but it's obvious Ryan is pathological.
3. Ryan isn't even the fastest recent GOP vice presidential candidate. Sarah Palin once ran a 3:59:36 marathon. I'm sure she could see Russia during her entire run.
4. My wife ran the Chicago marathon in 2003. Roberta's time was 3:59:35 -- exactly 1 second faster than Palin and nearly 2 minutes faster than Lyin' Ryan.
Maybe Roberta should be a vice presidential candidate in 2016!
Nah ... she's far too honest for that.
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Bees buzz, the moon orbits Earth, coaches yell, parents embarrass their kids ...
And politicians lie.
It's what they do. Oh, more genteel people call it "exaggerating" or "couching the truth" or "taking things out of context."
In other words, they lie.
The presidential campaign has been one lie after another. From what I have heard so far, Republicans have been quite a bit more truth-challenged, but the Dems are working hard at their convention this week to give the GOP a run for its money.
Bill Clinton's speech last night was masterful: a point-by-point, detail-filled refutation of the Republican case against Barack Obama. It was entertaining, too. He didn't need an empty chair to keep his audience enthralled for 45 minutes.
Clinton acted the part of the Myth Buster when it came to Republican lies about welfare, Obamacare, Medicare and the stimulus. It was a sensational performance.
Yet he lied, too. I couldn't believe it when he suggested that Obama embraced the Simpson-Bowles deficit plan ... because that simply isn't true. It was kind of like Paul "Lyin'" Ryan a week earlier blaming Obama for America getting its credit rating downgraded -- even though Congressional Republicans, egged on by tea-partiers, were the ones who refused to raise the debt ceiling, leading directly to the downgrade.
My former employer, AP, got criticized for including the Monica Lewinsky affair in its fact-checking story about Clinton's speech. It was in response to Clinton accusing Republicans of lying. And it was perfectly fair territory. Clinton has become something of a hero these days, even to some GOPers, but history knows he lied and lied and lied and lied as president.
Yep, they're all liars. And here's a new low ... or is it a new high? (I don't know how to score these things.)
Lyin' Ryan claimed his best marathon time was "two hours and fifty something." When I heard that, I thought, "Wow, that's really fast!"
Fast, yes. And loose with the facts, too.
According to Runner's World magazine, which keeps track of such things, Ryan only ran one marathon, in 1990. He completed the 26.2 miles in 4 hours, 1 minute, 25 seconds. Which is pretty close, a mere 1 hour-plus off his claim.
A few things:
1. I guess this means Runner's World now must be part of the mainstream liberal media.
2. How pathetic that he felt a need to lie about something as unimportant as his marathon time. I thought Mitt Romney was the big liar on that ticket, but it's obvious Ryan is pathological.
3. Ryan isn't even the fastest recent GOP vice presidential candidate. Sarah Palin once ran a 3:59:36 marathon. I'm sure she could see Russia during her entire run.
4. My wife ran the Chicago marathon in 2003. Roberta's time was 3:59:35 -- exactly 1 second faster than Palin and nearly 2 minutes faster than Lyin' Ryan.
Maybe Roberta should be a vice presidential candidate in 2016!
Nah ... she's far too honest for that.
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