Latest Willard Ad Heads Straight to the "Racist Sewer of Our Politics"

Even the Richmond Times Dispatch admits these attacks are lies (0.00 / 0)

http://www.politifact.com/virg...

"McDonnell said the Obama administration is  "unwinding" welfare-to-work requirements.

But a new Obama program does not end welfare-to-work mandates. To the contrary, it strengthens the requirements by granting waivers to states seeking to make the work requirements more successful. The waivers would be granted to pilot programs that are individually evaluated; HHS is not proposing a blanket national change to welfare law.

We rate McDonnell's statement False."

If you're a Republican and the RTD calls you a liar, well, you're a liar my friend.

The Richmonder

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by: The Richmonder @ Mon Aug 13, 2012 at 22:51:43 PM UTC

And yet they're broadcast on the public airwaves. (0.00 / 0)

As are Romney's and Ryan's lies about President Obama supposedly stealing $700 billion from Medicare to pay for "Obamacare."  See here for more.

ROMNEY: "Unlike the current president, who has cut Medicare funding by $700 billion, we will preserve and protect Medicare and Social Security and keep them there for future generations."

THE FACTS: You could fill an arena with all the details left out in this statement. Ryan's reputation as a fiscal conservative is built on a budget plan that would overhaul the Medicare program and introduce a voucher-like plan that future retirees could use to buy private health insurance. Whether that results in a better or worse situation for Medicare recipients is a matter of debate. But under Ryan's plan, traditional Medicare would no longer be the health insurance mainstay, just one of many competing options.

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by: lowkell @ Mon Aug 13, 2012 at 23:01:59 PM UTC

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Also see (0.00 / 0)

here:

Cuts Medicare by $500 Billion?

Romney: Obamacare cuts Medicare by approximately $500 billion.

As we have written many times, the law does not slash the current Medicare budget by $500 billion. Rather, that's a $500 billion reduction in the future growth of Medicare over 10 years, or about a 7 percent reduction in growth over the decade. In other words, Medicare spending would continue to rise, just not as much. The law stipulates that guaranteed Medicare benefits won't be reduced, and it adds some new benefits, such as improved coverage for pharmaceuticals.

Most of those savings come from a reduction in the future growth of payments to hospitals and other providers (not physicians), and a reduction in payments to private Medicare Advantage plans to bring those payments in line with traditional Medicare. (MA plans have been paid more per beneficiary than traditional Medicare.)

And it assumes they actually happen. There's good reason to think that some of those reductions won't be implemented. The law calls for cuts in the future growth of reimbursement payments to hospitals and other health care providers - that accounts for $219 billion of the Medicare savings in the law. But Congress has consistently overridden similar scheduled cuts in payments to doctors.

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by: lowkell @ Mon Aug 13, 2012 at 23:03:56 PM UTC

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Speaking of racism: Paul Ryan edition (0.00 / 0)

Digby explains:

Notice that he smoothly uses the term "catch and release" and when a constituent objects, asking whether he's "talking about fish or human beings", and his wingnut fans explode, he deftly turns it into a lecture about civility. And then uses the term again, along with the other loaded phrase "anchor babies", which his fan had said were "dropped" rather than born.

This guy is good at navigating these shoals, but there's no doubt which tribe he identifies with. It's the gift of a talented dog whistler.

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by: lowkell @ Mon Aug 13, 2012 at 23:33:37 PM UTC

At last (0.00 / 0)

At last you begin to open your eyes.  Racism is a powerful motivator in many southern rural communities.  It is a card that has been played well by the Republicans with their Southern Strategy.  It explains the massive shift away from the Democratic(Dixiecrat)party in the south to the Republican party that began in 1964-65 with the Civil Rights legislation.  Now the "Solid South" is no longer Democratic but Republican.  It explains why Democrats, no matter their race will lose in most rural southern jurisdictions because they represent the party of Civil Rights.  It also explains why, in my particular county, we never garner more than 20% of the white vote.  Hopefully it will die out or be defeated by changing demographics.

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by: Bumble Bee @ Tue Aug 14, 2012 at 01:37:40 AM UTC

Mr. Ryan's" reasonableness" (0.00 / 0)

comes across beautifully in this exchange. What I want to know, however, is: are the former Marine's comments all true? Does the local school district in Deming, N.M., actually send busses to the border and transport children to American schools, feed them, educate them, and return them at night back into Mexico? If so, no wonder the locals are upset, I agree, the tenor of the remarks are racist, also, well modulated class warfare as well... but, there is an issue here besides racism, and slapdash painting over it all as being simply raciust is to ignore the other, very real problem nagging at the locals. I've lived in Arizona, 40 miles north of ambos Nogales, and believe me, there is a problem... nothing is a simple as it seems.

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by: Teddy Goodson @ Tue Aug 14, 2012 at 13:48:43 PM UTC