GOP LIAR'S CONVENTION: CONTINUES IN TAMPA

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<H2 class=3Ddate-header>Tuesday, August 28,
2012</H2>
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***LIES***</A> </H3>
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itemprop=3D"articleBody">For my own health, I refuse to watch a
single second of the Republican convention. But two intrepid men did so
on by behalf. First off, the fearless Andrew Sullivan live-blogging the
whole train wreck right <A
href=3D"http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2012/08/live-blogging-tamp=
a-day-one-kinda.html">here</A>. Highlights:   9.31 pm. Santorum speaks as if Obama
needs to be taught what it is to be an American. The whole night so far
has been reiterating every bald-faced out-of-context lie about the
president. 9.33 pm. A reader writes: Tonight's theme at the RNC is We Built
That. The Republicans should also post that under the national debt
counter they have above the podium. Another: One of the RNC's "We Built
That" profiles of American small-business owners includes a short spot
with Sam Sakata, owner of Sakata Farms. Sakata is a plain-spoken,
laconic guy who expresses disappointment with Obama but little vitriol.
But one sentiment he never expresses? A sense of gratitude or humility
for the $79,430 worth of Federal subsidies he received during the first
five years of his business.  9.34 pm. Santorum is saying that
Obama has "waived the work requirement for welfare". This is a lie -
spoken by the runner-up for the nomination. It is a lie. The waivers
have been routine for state experimentation. Many were sought by
Republican governors. They were designed to ensure more efficient ways
to get work as part of the welfare requirement. Santorum is a devout
Catholic. So why is he lying out loud on national television? And why is
he stirring up racial division by lying? If you ever thought the guy had
some integrity, you now know he doesn't. 9.38 pm. The fact-checking of
Boehner's speech is brutal as well. This is a convention based on lies,
it appears. Kessler: House Speaker John Boehner's speech starts out with
just about every out-of-context quote used by Republicans to bash
President Obama. Two of his examples were featured in our Gaffe-check
videos: "The private sector is doing fine" and "If you've got a
business, "you didn't build that." Such gaffes are effective when they
reinforce an existing stereotype=97in this case, the notion that Obama
is hostile to private enterprise. But as our videos show, both of these
quotes were taken out of context. This seems a natural next step for a
fundamentalist party, inventing its own reality, insisting on its own
truths, and simply refusing to acknowledge reality. There is a case to
be made against Obama; but what we have been hearing so far is an attack
on a president who exists entirely in the imagination of the GOP
base.  9.40 pm. Santorum was movingly genuine in his
pro-life fanaticism. But he also critically played up the welfare
lie.  10.02 pm. Another lie about welfare
reform - adding that Obama "gutted" it secretly in the middle of the
night. And another obvious lie: Not a single Republican idea in
Obamacare? How about the individual mandate? Healthcare exchanges? But
here's what's staggering about this dude: he has turned his own lie into
an accusation that Obama - and every fact-checker in the business - into
an alleged lie by Obama! This is what a cold civil war looks like:
making shit up entirely to create an illusion of reality. No engagement;
no real argument; no actual debate. Just
fantasy.  10.05 pm. Nikki Haley repeats the
lie about how Obama said that small business owners "didn't build their
businesses". The lie is now a premise for further lies. So Obama is
actually chasing industry overseas.  10.12 pm. I can't say I found Haley
that galvanizing - or her rhetoric persuasive. Seriously, Obama is also
"destabilizing" the military? What part of the fictitious kitchen sink
has been left behind.  10.49  pm. Chris Christie is
attacking politicians who attack!   10.50 pm. After a night of
categorical lies, Christie tells us to face the
truth.  10.55 pm. Key sentence: Their plan: whistle a happy tune while
driving us off the fiscal cliff, as long as they are behind the wheel of
power while we fall. Why would anyone in politics want to do that?
Christie is describing is not found in reality. Maybe Obama is misguided
- but does he really want to wreck the country? Who believes that but
Limbaugh fans?  10.56 pm. Another key sentence: We
believe it's possible to forge bipartisan compromise and stand up for
conservative principles. Which translates into no new tax revenues;
increased defense spending; and Medicare cuts in the distant future.
Where is the compromise in the GOP platform? The meaning of that
sentence seems to me to say rather simply that "We believe it's possible
to force Democrats to adopt every single GOP idea and refuse to offer
them anything in return and that's bipartisanship." 
 10.56 pm. Another key
sentence: We believe it's possible to forge bipartisan compromise and
stand up for conservative principles. Which translates into no new tax
revenues; increased defense spending; and Medicare cuts in the distant
future. Where is the compromise in the GOP platform? The meaning of that
sentence seems to me to say rather simply that "We believe it's possible
to force Democrats to adopt every single GOP idea and refuse to offer
them anything in return and that's bipartisanship." 
 10.58 pm. I feel as if I am behind the looking glass.
Another statement [by Christie]: "Tonight, our duty is to tell the
American people the truth. Our problems are big and the solutions will
not be painless. We all must share in the sacrifice. Any leader that
tells us differently is simply not telling the truth."  So Christie
is presumably for Obama. On the debt, the Republicans believe that some
should be spared pain and not have to "share in the sacrifice": the very
wealthy and the Pentagon. Only the poor and the old and the sick have to
make sacrifices. The wealthy and the defense contractors can sleep
soundly. No sacrifice for them. Obama, on the other hand, favors cuts in
Medicare (and has enforced them), cuts in defense, and increases in tax
revenues from the very wealthy. Only Obama wants to share the
sacrifice.  Well, you get the idea. The Republicans
told the "You didn't build that" lie and the "gutting welfare" lie over
and over and over. I'm glad I missed it. And the comment by the
redoubtable Pierce on all this is not to be <A
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">missed</A>: It was an entire evening based on a
demonstrable lie. It was an entire evening based on demonstrable lies
told in service to the overriding demonstrable lie. And there was only
one real story for actual journalists to tell at the end of
it. The Republicans simply don't care. They don't care that they lie.
They don't care that their lies are obvious. They don't care that their
lies wouldn't fool an underpaid substitute Social Studies teacher in a
public middle school, who would then probably go out one night and get
yelled at by Chris Christie. ("They believe in teacher's unions. We
believe in teachers," he said in his speech. Yeah, you just don't
believe in paying them.) They don't care that they lie
so obviously that they always get caught, like they did with the
evening's entire theme, like they have in and around the Tampa Bay Times
Forum, or with the story of poor Jack Gilchrist. The Republicans will
just tell the lie again. And again. And once more, until people get
tired of telling the truth in response. It was an entire evening based
on a demonstrable lie because it was an entire evening based on
rejecting =97 publicly and dishonestly, and without caring that the
facts of your own biographies give the lie to the words you're saying
=97 the idea of a general political commonwealth as expressed through
the national government, which has been the great engine behind the
expansion of the country's size, the country's wealth, and, yes, the
country's freedom... It was an entire evening based
on a demonstrable lie, and it was topped off by a demonstrable liar
named Chris Christie, who talked about how the president can't lead, and
that nobody wants to tell the Americans the truth of the sacrifices we
have to share, and talked about "politicians who pander" at a convention
that is preparing to nominate Willard Romney, which was the final
hilarious lie of the night, since Romney hasn't stopped pandering since
he walked down the steps of the Massachusetts State House in 2006.
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