Paul Ryan

Virginia Foxx got an op-ed published in several newspapers in her district a few days ago, hammering Obama and the Democrats on the budget and repeating many of the same talking points that Paul Ryan and Company have been hammering in conservative media the past few days.

If you have some time, call in to the Town Hall on April 15th and give Foxx and her henhouse some grief.

I've also been Googling around a little bit - I have a funny feeling that Foxx or her staff didn't write this op-ed and versions of it are floating around under the bylines of different legislators. If you find proof of this, post something in the comments.

The Center for American Progress Action Fund has released its comprehensive report on the real cost of the Romney/Ryan plan to North Carolinians and the news is not good. Seniors, students and middle-class families, in particular, all stand to lose big under this plan. For a look at the entire report, including sources, please visit http://bit.ly/RFaqSP. To see a full-size version of a great summary graphic of the report's conclusions and to access downloads of this flyer that you can distribute plus the full report, please see after the jump.

Progress NC Action is proud to be partnering with the Center for American Progress Action Fund on a special report that reveals the real cost to North Carolina of the Romney/Ryan Plan. CAP Action has analyzed the Romney/Ryan plan and measured its potential impact on our state in a number of critical areas, including taxes, jobs, medicare, healthcare and more.

Don't miss this opportunity to learn the facts and to pick up materials you can pass along to your family and friends before November 6th.

You are invited to join us at a press conference in Raleigh this Wednesday afternoon featuring U.S. Congressman David Price, or at a special forum later that evening at UNC Greensboro. There will also be a Charlotte press conference on the morning of October 18th with details to some.

Event information and a link to a comprehensive resource page you are welcome to use is posted after the jump.

If a person can be judged by the company he keeps, Pat McCrory must be judged a snake oil salesman of the highest order. Not just because of his gushing over the clueless Mitt Romney, but also because of his adoration for Garden State Governor Chris Christie. Christie recently came to town to argue that Pat McCrory will do for North Carolina what he himself has done with the so-called New Jersey Comeback.

On Tuesday, (Christie's) frequent assertions ... came under fresh scrutiny, this time from Standard & Poor’s, which downgraded New Jersey's financial outlook to negative from stable. The ratings agency said it lowered its outlook because it believed the governor’s revenue projections for the current fiscal year were overly optimistic, warning that the budget was structurally unsound.

When "I'll just take your word for it" seems to suffice:

The keynote speaker and others claimed the Republican presidential nominee, Mitt Romney, would raise taxes on the “middle class.” He has promised he won’t. Democrats base their claim on a study that doesn’t necessarily lead to that conclusion.

Bolding mine. Do I have to bring up Bush the Elder's "Read My Lips" claim? Really? And by the way, the study most definitely leads to that conclusion:

I was the captain of my track team in high school and also ran at the college level at Annapolis. I ran the quarter and the mile relay. My best time for the quarter was 48.8 at the Penn Relays in 1971. I came in a distant fourth.

The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,
But in ourselves."
-- Julius Caesar Act 1, Scene 2

The Village press and the liberal blogosphere have had a field day with Republican convention speeches this week by Congressman Paul Ryan and Governor Mitt Romney. But what critics are missing about “post-truth politics” is that the fault lies not just with mendacious politicians, but with an American electorate that tolerates and enables them.

After this week’s Republican national convention, Fox News contributor Sally Kohn called Paul Ryan’s speech, “an apparent attempt to set the world record for the greatest number of blatant lies and misrepresentations slipped into a single political speech.”

Paul Ryan visits Raleigh to pat Democrats on the back:

A state that's known for its research. A state that's known for it's dynamic economy.

How the heck does the biggest brown-noser think our state has gotten to be known for research and for a dynamic economy? It sure as hell wasn't under the so-called leadership of Republicans like McCrory and Tillis. In the two years since the GOP has had control of the General Assembly, the North Carolina economy has been swirling down the toilet, along with our environment and our personal freedoms. That's the same thing that happened with Bush and Bush-lite.

Let's be blunt. Access to health care saves lives. Loss of health care costs lives. The Ryan-Romney budget would cut as many as 30 million Americans off Medicaid--which, by definition, is the health care program available to people who can't afford any other coverage. Analysis of Medicaid coverage's effectiveness in saving lives shows that this would cost about 170,000 lives a year. Put it this way: The Ryan-Romney health care cuts could result in more additional American deaths every year than we've lost in every war since WWII combined.

Shocking? Yes, but you don't have to take my word for it. Here are my sources. Crunch the numbers yourself.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/wp/2012/07/26/how-to-save...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/wp/2012/08/13/paul-ryans-...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_military_casualties_of_war

Monstrously immoral? That's my opinion.

Pat McCrory and Mitt Romney also want to make birth control illegal. Hard to believe, but true. Pat McCrory backs Mitt Romney's plan. (This segment from Rachel Maddow opens with one of Romney's campaign commercials lies, but it's worth wading through the bullshit to see just how radical these clowns are.)