Green Energy
- The Criterion Of Panic, And Resignation?- Ej Dionne
EJ Dionne from RCP:The right wing has lost the election of 2012.The evidence for this is overwhelming, yet it is the year’s best-kept secret. Mitt Romney would not be throwing virtually all of his past positions overboard if he thought the nation were...
- Shocking But Unsurprising … Daily Mail:obama, In Alternate Reality, Thought He Won Debate
Obama ‘believed he had BEATEN Romney’ in Denver debate - after ignoring advice of top aides on preparationObama believes he’d got the better of Romney as he walked off stage to the dismay of his aides, according to a Democrat close to the campaignThe...
- After Debate Debacle Obama Engages Projection Over Lies
The Obama campaign’s hangover has been cured by defending their lies, using the technique of calling Mitt Romney’s accurate observation that what were they were saying about HIM was not true, a lie.They accuse Romney of lying ABOUT HIS OWN POLICIES...
- “on Every Measure It Is Romney Who Is Winning The Battle For The Support Of Middle-class Families”
Politico, this morning.The past several weeks have been filled with news stories, editorials and columns heaping criticism on the tactics and strategy of the Romney campaign. Many of these opinion pieces even suggested that Romney’s only hope...
- What Are The Republicans Talking About? Why Are The Debate Moderators Warped?
Does anyone here think that Newt’s accusations against Romney or the new Romney campaign to de-legitimize Gingrich’s Reagan connections ….makes the slightest difference to increasing manufacturing jobs and investment in the USA?Is there anyone...
Green Energy
The Underpinning of the ‘Romney is a Liar’ argument
‘Romney is a Liar’ (since 'we' lost the debate) is the argument now of the Obama campaign OFFICIALLY, as in “I’m Barack Obama and I approved this message”
So I decided to look at the underpinning of this argument.
- It is based around the idea that since OBAMA-MATH cannot add up the spending and tax cuts to a zero, that Romney MUST increase the taxes on the middle class to get the number to ZERO ..which is a massive assumption, to say the least, and a very convenient one for Obama
- It is based on a 2010 ‘59 point’ plan advanced by Romney (which has been left behind)
- It is based on the modeling of the Brooking’s Institute, a long term left of center organization purporting to be non partisan, and their offspring the Tax Policy Center, which has certain republicans as employees - but the chief (R) appears to be an employee of GHW Bush, a man whose lack of conservatism in economic policy and breaking of promises lost him the presidency. “READ MY LIPS”
- The Brookings study also makes assumptions about what Romney would do where they see blanks, such as CAPPING THE MORTGAGE INTEREST DEDUCTION .. a stupendous leap.
Like other denials Romney has made face to face with the people, the Obama campaign simply ignores his denials and says he must be lying about his plan and lying about his denial since the math they use says they cannot figure out how he will do it.
Romney says, here is a plan, and everything is on the table, and we’ll go to congress and see what we can all work out. In the Brookings/Tax Policy analysis, note how many things are ASSUMED TO NON NEGOTIABLE, absurd in my view. A business CEO does not operate this way.
Romney says that since ECONOMIC GROWTH WHICH CREATES JOBS is the priority, growth which increases tax revenue, he will do whatever he has to do to follow that priority.
This is why Romney insists Obama is not entitled to his own facts.
Obama lives in a world created by his own facts, and all outside that world must be a lie.
This is why the Obama campaign acts with such conviction.
That is why conservatives react with polarized skepticism whenever this president makes any claim.
About anything.
Want to look at the data behind this yourselves?
HERITAGE FOUNDATION- right of center
Brookings/Tax Policy Original Paper - left of center
WSJ response
Brookings response to WSJ
AEI on tax plan - right of center
The Hill on the lie claims
- The Criterion Of Panic, And Resignation?- Ej Dionne
EJ Dionne from RCP:The right wing has lost the election of 2012.The evidence for this is overwhelming, yet it is the year’s best-kept secret. Mitt Romney would not be throwing virtually all of his past positions overboard if he thought the nation were...
- Shocking But Unsurprising … Daily Mail:obama, In Alternate Reality, Thought He Won Debate
Obama ‘believed he had BEATEN Romney’ in Denver debate - after ignoring advice of top aides on preparationObama believes he’d got the better of Romney as he walked off stage to the dismay of his aides, according to a Democrat close to the campaignThe...
- After Debate Debacle Obama Engages Projection Over Lies
The Obama campaign’s hangover has been cured by defending their lies, using the technique of calling Mitt Romney’s accurate observation that what were they were saying about HIM was not true, a lie.They accuse Romney of lying ABOUT HIS OWN POLICIES...
- “on Every Measure It Is Romney Who Is Winning The Battle For The Support Of Middle-class Families”
Politico, this morning.The past several weeks have been filled with news stories, editorials and columns heaping criticism on the tactics and strategy of the Romney campaign. Many of these opinion pieces even suggested that Romney’s only hope...
- What Are The Republicans Talking About? Why Are The Debate Moderators Warped?
Does anyone here think that Newt’s accusations against Romney or the new Romney campaign to de-legitimize Gingrich’s Reagan connections ….makes the slightest difference to increasing manufacturing jobs and investment in the USA?Is there anyone...