Republican Lies

Proving once again that he will say anything, however ironic, to score political points:

Now is not the time to raise taxes - especially on single moms, senior citizens and the unemployed.

I think we should create a new category of political propaganda, let's call it "parading your victims", in which you use people you've already abused yourself in an effort to generate sympathy. We'll start with the senior citizens:

It looks like enough Dems (or their families) are in the hospital to warrant pulling those Vetoes out of the garage for a spin:

CraigJ_NandO 11:26pm via TweetDeck House will take up other veto overrides after midnight tonight. Hackney says he was lied to about it. #ncga #ncpol

After parading a list of hot-button troublemakers to prejudice readers:

In fact, the opponents of voter ID are a small, but loud, alliance of Democratic leaders, ultra-liberal activists and the mainstream media. Across the country, groups like the ACLU, League of Women Voters, NAACP and AARP work together to form a powerful and well-funded coalition to stop voter ID legislation.

The puppet on duty proceeds to reference a "converted" Democrat who now "sees the light":

Now he's the staunch Conservative:

“What those on the left try to do is take the moral high ground,” Beitler said while speaking to the members of the Lenoir County GOP on Monday. “We need to understand that, as conservatives, we have the moral high ground.”

But a little over a year ago, he was a committed Libertarian, with some pretty harsh words for the Party he's now wooing:

Trying to tie the Governor's hands over Pre-K funding:

Perdue wants to restore $30 million to the Pre-K program by using money that hasn't yet been earmarked for other programs and by taking millions of dollars out of the state's Emergency Fund. But Republican lawmakers argue it's an inappropriate use of emergency fund money. They point out the legislature already approved the budget over the governor's veto.

While granting her Budgetary carte blanche to solve their poor handling of the Medicaid issue:

That was just one month ago, when Dollar, Tillis and Berger promised everybody no cuts to Medicaid would be forthcoming. This is now:

Pretending to be a defender of Social Security:

He talked of changing Medicare and Medicaid and reforming Social Security "so that the solvency of Social Security guarantees every person in this room when they get 65, they're actually going to get what they were promised and not half of what that amount should have been."

Once again, what he says and what he does are two totally different things. Earlier this year, he voted to allow the Social Security retirement age to rise up to 69 or higher, making that statement above pure deception on his part. And not a damned soul in that room called him on it.

You might get a "jury of your peers", if you're white, that is:

Implicit in the Racial Justice Act is that the makeup of juries can be manipulated to skew verdicts, and advocates of the historic law have provided numbers they contend show sweeping patterns of racial disparities. In Wake County, qualified African-American jurors were struck at 2.5 times the rate of all other jurors, and in Cumberland County, they were struck at 2.6 times the rate, according to the Michigan State University researchers.

For those who can't quite grasp how our system would allow this, here's a personal anecdote that may help you understand:

The pleasure part being the collection of campaign contributions:

The budget timing raises questions about decreased opportunities for public input and the possibility of legislators mixing fundraising with decision-making. Brubaker downplayed the significance of the change because the budget basics are already set.

Okay, the reporter's first mistake was asking Harold Brubaker's opinion about campaign contributions. I hesitate to step into the miasma of the Pope/Morgan feud, but campaign money isn't one of Brubaker's strong suits:

According to Forbes, it's the third best in the entire country:

Forbes magazine ranks North Carolina third in its annual ranking of best states for business, unchanged from last year. The magazine evaluates costs, labor supply, regulatory environment, economic climate, growth prospects and quality of life in making the rankings.

Drilling down a little deeper into this report, we see the State of Georgia losing some ground: