GOP Truthiness
The next debate may have to carry fact-check subtitles but, to get the flavor of this one, the Caucus blog parses some of the more flagrant examples of Truthiness.
My favorite is Newt Gingrich’s inversion of an advisory on prostate tests for men from a policy that could save lives and needless suffering into an example of Sarah Palin’s death panels, which was named “The Lie of the Year” in 2009 by an award-winning fact check site.
But how to choose? Practically everything out of Michele Bachmann’s mouth was so goofily untrue that there could have been a running translation: “If it rains frogs tomorrow, it’s Obama’s fault, and I voted against it.” She even bragged about refusing to raise the debt ceiling, which could have brought down the government, but we did learn that she is a tax lawyer with a lot of foster children.
When a reporter suggested that actual numbers showed that his 999 plan wouldn’t work, Herman Cain breezily told her the figures were wrong. He wouldn’t name his secret economic advisers, but his sly smile suggested that he might be working on an 888 special for the primary season.
Rick Perry continued to look like one of those old Polaroid pictures from which the developing strip has been removed too soon…
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58 Responses to “GOP Truthiness”
Jeez, it was a joke. If all my arguments against big government and cradle to grave spoon feeding didn’t reveal the big R on my ball cap, then I will have to be more emphatic in the future.
What does “big government and cradle to grave spoon feeding” have to do with whether you are a Democrat or a Republican? A conservative or a Liberal?
Hmmmm, can’t think of any off hand, except that it is my perception of the Dem party.
BTW: Correction, my cap says RM, Republican Moderate.
SteveK-
Amazing.
I’m fiscally liberal but socially conservative.
Allen, Having read your comments I’m not amazed or surprised in the least.
I have to add that my definition of ‘fiscally conservative’ isn’t “screw the masses… it’s everybody for themselves”.
Rather it’s:
In other words my definition of “fiscally conservative” is the complete opposite of what the current batch of conservatives / ‘small r’ republicans think it is.
“I agree the GOP has moved to the right over the past couple of decades, that is why I left them. It does not follow that the left is now the middle though, I don’t see the logic.” – DaGoat
Well, they sure as heck aren’t as liberal as they were throughout of their history. Too many years of dreaming the right had an actual interest in bipartisanship I reckon. Hopefully they’ve had their eyes opened by not, cuz R-lite sure isn’t making the grade.
SteveK
Well your views are not Republican views then. On each count.
JSpencer-
Yeah, I really like Republicans Rockefeller and Goldwater going on about Nuking North Vietnam back in the sixties. Considering how things turned out, what a friggen mess that would have been!
For some reason I just keep coming back to the same conclusion: Rupublicans are just stupid. They always come around to liberal original ideas, just takes them longer to, “get it.”