Can you say bitch slapped?
Can you say old fashioned down home ass whippin?
I actually think that VP Biden took it easy on him. When they were asked about religion Joe could have brought up Ayn Rand who we all know that atheist Ayn Rand is Lyin Ryan's hero.
I will be fact checking and reporting back!
UPDATE: Here's a partial fact check.
RYAN WAS DECEPTIVE: "There were requests for more security."
THE FACTS: Ryan is right, judging by testimony from Obama administration officials at the hearing a day earlier but is was CONgress Paul Ryan and other Republicans who voted against more funding for embassy security. Read the truth HERE and HERE
"In fiscal year 2011, lawmakers shaved $128 million off of the administration's request for embassy security funding. House Republicans drained off even more funds in fiscal year 2012 -- cutting back on the department's request by $331 million. As the Washington Post noted, for fiscal year 2013, "the GOP-controlled House proposed spending $1.934 billion for the State Department’s Worldwide Security Protection program -- well below the $2.15 billion requested by the Obama administration."
Charlene
R. Lamb, a deputy assistant secretary for diplomatic security, told
lawmakers she refused requests for more security in Benghazi, saying the
department wanted to train Libyans to protect the consulate. "Yes,
sir, I said personally I would not support it," she said.
Eric
Nordstrom, who was the top security official in Libya earlier this
year, testified he was criticized for seeking more security. He said
conversations he had with people in Washington led him to believe that
it was "abundantly clear we were not going to get resources until the
aftermath of an incident. How thin does the ice have to get before
someone falls through?"
He said his exasperation reached a point where he told a colleague that "for me the Taliban is on the inside of the building."
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RYAN LIED: "Look at just the $90 billion in stimulus the vice president was in charge of overseeing — this $90 billion in green pork to campaign contributors and special interest groups."
THE FACTS: Dismissing an entire package of energy stimulus grants and loans as "green pork" ignores the help that was given to people to make their homes more energy efficient, grants to public entities constructing high speed rail lines and tax credits to manufacturers to install equipment fostering cleaner energy.
To be sure, there were some failed investments, such as $528 million to the politically connected and now-bankrupt solar power company Solyndra. But Ryan's claim made it sound like every penny went down the drain. There was a 4% failure rate compared to a 40% failure rate for private equity firms like Bain Capital.
More
broadly, economists are nearly universal in saying Obama's $800
billion-plus stimulus passed in early 2009 helped create both
public-sector and private-sector jobs, even if they fell short of what
sponsors had hoped. Douglas Elmendorf, director of the nonpartisan
Congressional Budget Office, estimated the stimulus saved or created
more than 3 million jobs.
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BIDEN: "We went out and rescued General Motors."THE FACTS: Actually, the auto bailout of General Motors and Chrysler began under President George W. Bush. The Obama administration continued and expanded it and Romney said "Let Detroit go bankrupt."
___ RYAN LIED: "And then they put this new Obamacare board in charge of cutting Medicare
each and every year in ways that will lead to denied care for current
seniors. This board, by the way, it's 15 people, the president's
supposed to appoint them next year. And not one of them even has to have
medical training."
THE FACTS: Ryan is referring to the Independent Payment Advisory Board, created under President Barack Obama's
health care overhaul law. It has the power to force cuts in Medicare
payments to service providers if costs rise above certain levels and
Congress fails to act. But it doesn't look like the board will be
cutting Medicare "each and every year," as Ryan asserts. Medicare
costs are currently rising more slowly than ever and the government's own experts
project the board's intervention will not be needed until 2018 and 2019
at the earliest — after Obama leaves office if re-elected to a second
term.
___BIDEN, when asked who would pay more taxes in Obama's second term: "People making a million dollars or more."
THE
FACTS: Obama's proposed tax increase reaches a bit farther down the income
ladder than millionaires. He wants to roll back Bush-era tax cuts for
individuals making over $200,000 and couples making more than $250,000.
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RYAN LIED: "We cannot allow Iran to gain a nuclear weapons capability. Now, let's take a look at where we've gone — come from. When Barack Obama
was elected, they had enough fissile material — nuclear material — to
make one bomb. Now they have enough for five. They're racing toward a
nuclear weapon. They're four years closer toward a nuclear weapons
capability."
THE FACTS: Ryan's claim is misleading. Iran
isn't believed to have produced any of the highly enriched uranium
needed to produce even one nuclear weapon, let alone five. That point
isn't even disputed by Israel,
whose Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu implored the world at the
United Nations last month to create a "red line" at enrichment above 20
percent. Iran would have to enrich uranium at much higher levels to produce a weapon. There is intelligence suggesting that Iran has worked on weapon designs, but not that it has developed a delivery system for any potential nuclear warhead.
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BIDEN: "What we did is, we saved $716 billion and put it back, applied it to Medicare."
THE FACTS: Contrary to Biden's assertion, not all the money cut from Medicare
is going back into the program in some other way. The administration is
cutting $716 billion over 10 years in Medicare payments to providers
and using some of the money to improve benefits under the program. But
most of the money is being used to expand health care coverage outside
of Medicare. BUT.. the these are not actual cuts. The $716 million came from stopping the massive Medicare fraud so prevalent under the Bush years.
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RYAN LIED:
"What troubles me more is how this administration has handled all of
these issues. Look at what they're doing through Obamacare with respect
to assaulting the religious liberties of this country. They're
infringing upon our first freedom, the freedom of religion, by
infringing on Catholic charities, Catholic churches, Catholic
hospitals."THE FACTS: The requirement under the health care law that most employers cover birth control free of charge to female employees does not apply to churches, houses of worship, or other institutions directly involved in propagating a religious faith. It does apply to church-affiliated institutions such as hospitals and charities that serve the general public.
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BIDEN: "Romney said 'No, let Detroit go bankrupt.'"
THE
FACTS: GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney has gotten endless grief
through the campaign for the headline put on his November 2008 opinion
essay that he wrote for The New York Times. But his point was never that
he wanted the auto industry to go down the tubes.
Romney opposed using government money to bail out Chrysler and General Motors, instead favoring privately financed bankruptcy restructuring. His prescription seemed improbable. Automakers were hemorrhaging cash and the banking system was in crisis, so private money wasn't available. Without the government money, it's likely both companies would have gone out of business.
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RYAN TOLD A WHOPPER: "We should have spoken out right away when the green revolution was up and starting, when the mullahs in Iran
were attacking their people. We should not have called Bashar Assad a
reformer when he was turning his Russian-provided guns on his own
people.
THE FACTS: Neither
President Barack Obama nor anyone else in his administration ever
considered the Syrian leader a "reformer." The oft-repeated charge stems
from an interview Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton gave in
March 2011 noting that "many of the members of Congress of both parties
who have gone to Syria
in recent months have said they believe he's a reformer." She did not
endorse that view. The comment was widely perceived to be a knock at
senators such as John Kerry of Massachusetts who maintained cordial
relations with Assad in the months leading up to his crackdown on
protesters.
___RYAN LIED BY 50%: "This one tax would actually tax about 53 percent of small-business income."
BIDEN: "Ninety-seven percent of the small businesses in America pay less — make less than $250,000."
THE FACTS: When sizing up the effect on small business of raising taxes for individuals making more than $200,000 and married couples making more than $250,000, as Obama wants to do. Republicans say that would hit small-business owners who report business income on their individual income tax; Democrats say the overwhelming majority of small businesses would not be affected.
According to a 2010 report by the Joint Committee on Taxation, the official scorekeeper for Congress, about only 3 percent of people who report business income would face a tax increase under Obama's plan. That support's Biden's point.
The same report says those business owners account for about half of all business income. That supports Ryan but is irrelevant to the point.
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RYAN LIES AND DISTORTS: Notes that there have been four rounds of U.N. sanctions on Iran
to deter its nuclear program, three during the Bush administration and
one under Obama. "And the only reason we got it is because Russia
watered it down and prevented the sanctions from hitting the central
bank. Mitt Romney proposed these sanctions in 2007. In Congress, I've
been fighting for these sanctions since 2009. The administration was
blocking us every step of the way." He also noted the administration has
granted 20 waivers to the sanctions.
THE
FACTS: The argument that the administration was watering down or
delaying sanctions is misleading. For sanctions to work, they need
maximum global agreement and cooperation. Russia watered down U.N.
sanctions not only under Obama, but also under Bush. And it's highly
unlikely that a Romney administration, particularly led by a candidate
who says Russia is the biggest geostrategic threat to the U.S., would be
able to get Russia completely on board with what the U.S. wants to —
either in Iran or Syria.
The
more absolute U.S. sanctions that Ryan and others have pushed in
Congress would have punished U.S. allies, including most countries in
Europe as well as Japan and South Korea, along with good friends like India and Singapore — without the exemptions that were put in place.
The
administration has indeed granted 20 waivers, to countries that made
significant reductions in Iranian oil imports. And the sanctions are
pinching; Iran
has been convulsed over the past week with protests over the collapse
of its currency, which most people say is a direct result of the
sanctions that the U.S. and others have imposed.
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