On last night's show, Rachel talked at some length about a subject I follow with great interest: Mitt Romney's habit of saying things that aren't true. Summarizing some of yesterday's big political headlines, Rachel explained, "Just like Mitt Romney lied in his very first ad, in a really blunt, schoolyard kind of way. They're now lying in the new ad that is about Solyndra and Mitt Romney is lying about it personally out of his face at his big campaign stunt today.
Rachel concluded, "Even in this nuts day in American politics, don't you think that candidate telling a big, blatant lie in the middle of the news cycle deserves a little follow up?"
That was a rhetorical question, of course, but the answer is obviously yes, big, blatant lies from a major party presidential nominee do deserve some little follow up. It's one of the reasons I'm glad to present the 20th installment of my weekly series, chronicling Mitt's mendacity.
1. At a campaign stop in Craig, Colorado, this week, Romney argued, "The president, when he got elected, he said, look, 'I'm going to go out and borrow $787 billion and I'll keep unemployment below 8 percent.'"
Romney says this just about every day. It's not true.
2. In the same speech, Romney said Obama can't "blame Congress" for economic problems: "Remember that he had a supermajority in both the House and the Senate in his own party for his first two years."
Putting aside the fact that the current Congress is more relevant, the truth is Democrats did not have a supermajority for the vast majority of Obama's first two years.
3. Romney also argued, "That stimulus he put in place, it didn't help private sector jobs; it helped preserve government jobs."
That's the exact opposite of reality.
4. He went on to say about Obama, "He promised when he was running for office he was going to cut the deficit in half. He's more than doubled it."
I don't know how Romney defines "double," but the deficit on Obama's first day was $1.3 trillion. Last year, it was also $1.3 trillion. This year, it's projected to be $1.1 trillion. When he says the president "more than doubled" the deficit, as he has many times, Romney's lying.
5. Romney also argued, "There was an effort to impose unions on businesses and employees that didn't want them by having quickie elections and taking away the right to a secret ballot. Do you think imposing unions where employees don't want them is helping create jobs in this country?"
Putting aside the fact that he's mischaracterizing what card-check is, Romney is making it sound as if the policy passed and is hurting the economy. It never became law.
6. Romney went on to say, "You see, when businesses have lower taxes, they're able to invest in their future, put people back to work. Do you think President Obama's tax increases will add jobs in America?"
President Obama has not increased taxes; he's lowered them. Government spending, taxes, and deficits are all lower today than when Obama took office.
7. On energy, Romney argued, "[Obama] says he's for all of the above when it comes for energy. You heard that. And yet he's made it harder to get coal out of the ground. He's made it harder to get natural gas out of the ground. He's made it harder to get oil out of the ground."
In reality, coal production is up; we have more natural gas than we know what to do with; and oil production is up. Obama's support for "all of the above" continues.
8. On spending, Romney added, "The one place we should have shut back -- or cut back -- was on government jobs."
That's the place the nation has been cutting back.
9. On his own budget plans, Romney said, "I think it's immoral for us to pass on those burdens to our kids. If I'm president, I'll go after that deficit and get America on track to a balanced budget."
That's plainly false. Romney says his plan "can't be scored," but independent budget analysts have found his agenda would make the deficit bigger, not smaller, and add trillions to the national debt.
10. Romney told Fox News this week that President Obama is waging "a personal attack campaign," adding, "He's going after me as an individual."
To date, the Romney hasn't been able to point to any examples of Obama making a personal attack against Romney unrelated to substantive issues.
11. In an attack on teachers' unions, Romney said, " Their attitude was memorably expressed by a longtime president of the American Federation of Teachers: He said, quote, 'When school children start paying union dues, that's when I'll start representing the interests of children.' "
If we're being generous, we might call a claim like this "unsubstantiated." If we're being candid, a better description would be "apocryphal nonsense."
12. Romney began arguing this week that "80 percent" of the companies Bain Capital invested in grew and created jobs.
Nice try, but no.
13. In Las Vegas, Romney told a crowd, "He came into the White House and told people not to bother to go out to Las Vegas for conventions or meetings. That sure as heck didn't help did it?"
No, Obama actually said, in reference to Wall Street recklessness, "You are not going to be able to give out these big bonuses until you pay taxpayers back. You can't get corporate jets. You can't go take a trip to Las Vegas or go down to the Super Bowl on the taxpayers' dime. There's got to be some accountability and some responsibility."
14. In the same speech, Romney said "When the president proposes, as he has, raising the personal income tax rates took from 35% at the margin to 40%, it means less money for people [who own small businesses]."
In reality, Obama has cut taxes on small businesses, and raising the top income tax rate would not adversely affect small businesses, no matter how often Republicans argue to the contrary.
15. In an attack ad going after federal loan guarantees for energy companies, Romney claimed, "The Inspector General said contracts were steered to 'friends and family.'"
That's ridiculously misleading.
16. The Romney campaign argued this week that it focuses exclusively on substantive issues, regardless of passing distractions: "Every time the president trying to get off to something different like the attack of Governor Romney because of his dogs or the attack on Mrs. Romney we keep going back to what's important."
Putting aside the fact that neither Obama nor his campaign "attacked" Ann Romney, the truth is, the Romney campaign has obsessed endlessly over these side stories.
17. Romney told Fox News this week that voters are still getting to know "a new candidate like myself."
Romney has been running for president, nearly non-stop, for six years. He's anything but "new."
18. Romney told CBS News yesterday, "[D]omestically, it's hard to call what, now, 39, 40 months of unemployment above 8% a success when even he said by now, it would be in the 6% range."
That's a new twist on an old lie (see above), but it's still wrong.
The estimable Jamelle Bouie, clearly frustrated with Romney's resistance to honesty and the media's coverage of the problem, asked a fair question this week: "What does Romney need to do to receive any scrutiny for the mendacity that has defined his quest for the presidency?"
I wish I had a good answer to that question, but it's worth noting that a growing number of observers are at least noticing. Eugene Robinson explained this week, "There are those who tell the truth. There are those who distort the truth. And then there's Mitt Romney.... Not to put too fine a point on it, he lies. Quite a bit."
After compiling these last 20 installments, I'm hard pressed to disagree.
Previous editions of Chronicling Mitt's Mendacity: Vol. I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XI, XII,XIII, XIV, XV, XVI, XVII, XVIII, XIX
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Oh, pish tush! It's not actual lying. It's just campaign rhetoric, and everybody does it!
Besides, Obama smoked crack, and was born someplace, and had a white girlfriend that he made up, and, and. . .
I hope this is snarky.
Rachel and Steve and the Maddow Blog community: I am getting tired of sending the same message, but I will do it anyway. When is NBC, the Corporate parent of MSNBC, going to make this an issue on their network shows? It is all well and good that MSNBC, which is constantly trashed by the "conservative right" as irrelevant and not boasting a large viewership, has Rachel and Ed and a couple of others challenging Romney and his cohorts. But, where is Andrea Mitchell and whoever is taking Tom Brokaw's place as establishment pundits with prime time exposes of Romney's lies on NBC? Since I don't watch any of the network news or Sunday shows, I don't know the names, but I do know what I read on the "alternative press" and it basically says that the majority of people consider this presidential campaign a horse race, with pretty equal contenders. One side says the earth is flat and the other says it is round. They are given equal standing as a discussion of both sides of a question with equal merit. I will take the risk in saying that these are not equal positions. I believe that there is a predominant and factual basis for saying the earth is more global in shape than flat. So, NBC, is Mitt Romney equally as qualified and truthful as Barack Obama? At least allow some strong counter arguments to the Romney's lies.
SJ, NBC/MSNBC is owned by Comcast.
You think that Comcast will allow the guy that will cut funds to "The National Broadband Plan" to be documented as a liar over and over again? Really?
@ADMINZ! I checked and you are right: Comcast 51% & GE 49%. My point is that apparently Rachel & Steve and the rest are choosing not to challenge their bosses for fear of losing their jobs and the income that goes with it. I would probably do the same. So, unless I am willing to put my money where my mouth is, it is unfair of me to expect more of them. Self-righteousness is a bitch.
Gotta agree st john! I think Lawrence O'Donnell does a great job going after the lying as well. The rest of the news media are so worried they'll be seen as biased, they're unwilling to call a lie a lie. Maybe they're not funded properly and don't have the staff to do investigation or maybe they're just too lazy. Either way, they're not doing their jobs.
Wait.
You trolled, without knowing? Dude! To much yahoo answers can be a bad thing.
lol
I agree with the overall point you are making, but Clinton handed the press over to the corporations, the FCC hid the findings that local owned stations provided better coverage, so now here we are. No we need to break the strangle-hold they have on the "Free Press" as it once was. We the People are asking the corporations to go against their best interests... That only seems to work on fearful folks that watch FNC.
~heehee
HAHAHAHAH-5975278
1. The President said that to congress bout stimulus package.
2,2009-2011? http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40927097/ns/politics-capitol_hill/t/th-congress-sworn-gop-flexes-muscles/#.T8rkfI4xXss
3. Theres no way to tell except looking at Growth of government jobs.
4 The Debt rose $4.899 trillion during the two terms of the Bush presidency. It has now gone up $4.939 trillion since President Obama took office. debt % of GDP has almost doubled though
5"there was an Effort" never said it became law
6"Do you think President Obama's tax increases will add jobs in America?" Hello romney was asking a question about future Obamas whole campaign is making owners of business pay higher taxes. Ps. Obama care did add cost to business
7 People using iPhones is higher today than it was 4 years ago. Its called massive technology improvement in coal oil and natural gas . Federal production is actually down but on private land has BOOMED.
8 an increase of 153,000 federal jobs since 2009
9. His budget can't be scored because it is IMPOSSIBLLE to predict future Jobs added by companies hiring people once romney gives companies money by lowering their taxes. PS. USA corporate tax rate is highest in world right now
10. You said "
"To date, the Romney hasn't been able to point to any examples of Obama making a personal attack against Romney unrelated to substantive issues" Im glad u get to decide what is a "substantive issues" cause i think calling him a vampire is personal
11 so y don't union teachers and President Obama support letting families choose which school to attend? forcing inner city children to go to awful school seems to be truly caring about kids? hahahah But i think Unions Love Love it.
12 sorry it was 77% http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/johncassidy/2012/01/bain-capital-a-users-guide.html
13 UR so stupid. Obama said in a speech to USA citizens saying if your financially struggling don't go to vegas and lose all ur money. Romney said that Hurt lasvegas since its whole economy is about tourism
14. 80% of small businesses file taxes as individuals. FACT
15.so why is the FBI investigating the deal between solyndra and Obama? In fact, “nearly 200 of his biggest donors have landed plum government jobs and advisory posts, won federal contracts worth millions of dollars for their business interests or attended numerous elite White House meetings and social events, There are so many Obama and michelle obama ties to solyndra its gross.
16Hilary Rosen 36 white house visits, compared to Energy Secretary Stephen/Steve Chu visited 16 times. yea she's not on his staff? Just one example of many
17 WOW hahah running for six years now, so people should know who he and his wife r and what kind of people they? most people still haven't started paying attention to the election.but ur right everyone knows about him and his family.
18. Unemployment has been above 8% since Febuary 2009.
@st.john2018697:
NBC won't take this issue on because they are owned by General Electric Corp who must keep a tight lid on intelligent honest liberal politics and promote stupidity among the white working class to encourage them to vote against their own interest. Romney is a most competent and accomplished liar but these unwashed, toothless, low self-esteem white men should be kept in the dark.
You all should check out J Smooth's latest video on Romney. http://www.animalnewyork.com/2012/ill-doctrine-mitt-romney-scares-the-crap-out-of-me/
"lying out of his face" is an excellent turn of phrase.
Just for fun, ask him what planet God lives on. And he'll tell you the truth! Still, I admire how he handles neologarithms.
thank you for this service to your country.
Two HUGE game-changers this election cycle are:
1. The staggering sums of money that can come from anyone (or "no one") anywhere and be funneled toward any race. and
2. Facts don't matter so much because people just don't have the bandwidth on their own to sort things out, fact check, etc..
and considering that FOX has almost 3 times the viewership that MSNBC has...
(and we all know this but not enough people do
The sad truth. Obviously the nation has been sold to the highest bidder.
again!
Hi Steve, How do you keep your head from exploding with all these lies? Thanks for keeping track for the rest of us; I already forwarded this link to a friend who is dealing with a brother who has come under the Voldemortish influence of FOX "news." P.S. I finally had time to find you -- have been reading since Carpet Bagger. Thanks. ES aka on previous sites as SLF
send this to ur friend as well
1. The President said that to congress bout stimulus package.
2,2009-2011? http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40927097/ns/politics-capitol_hill/t/th-congress-sworn-gop-flexes-muscles/#.T8rkfI4xXss
3. Theres no way to tell except looking at Growth of government jobs.
4 The Debt rose $4.899 trillion during the two terms of the Bush presidency. It has now gone up $4.939 trillion since President Obama took office. debt % of GDP has almost doubled though
5"there was an Effort" never said it became law
6"Do you think President Obama's tax increases will add jobs in America?" Hello romney was asking a question about future Obamas whole campaign is making owners of business pay higher taxes. Ps. Obama care did add cost to business
7 People using iPhones is higher today than it was 4 years ago. Its called massive technology improvement in coal oil and natural gas . Federal production is actually down but on private land has BOOMED.
8 an increase of 153,000 federal jobs since 2009
9. His budget can't be scored because it is IMPOSSIBLLE to predict future Jobs added by companies hiring people once romney gives companies money by lowering their taxes. PS. USA corporate tax rate is highest in world right now
10. You said "
"To date, the Romney hasn't been able to point to any examples of Obama making a personal attack against Romney unrelated to substantive issues" Im glad u get to decide what is a "substantive issues" cause i think calling him a vampire is personal
11 so y don't union teachers and President Obama support letting families choose which school to attend? forcing inner city children to go to awful school seems to be truly caring about kids? hahahah But i think Unions Love Love it.
12 sorry it was 77% http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/johncassidy/2012/01/bain-capital-a-users-guide.html
13 UR so stupid. Obama said in a speech to USA citizens saying if your financially struggling don't go to vegas and lose all ur money. Romney said that Hurt lasvegas since its whole economy is about tourism
14. 80% of small businesses file taxes as individuals. FACT
15.so why is the FBI investigating the deal between solyndra and Obama? In fact, “nearly 200 of his biggest donors have landed plum government jobs and advisory posts, won federal contracts worth millions of dollars for their business interests or attended numerous elite White House meetings and social events, There are so many Obama and michelle obama ties to solyndra its gross.
16Hilary Rosen 36 white house visits, compared to Energy Secretary Stephen/Steve Chu visited 16 times. yea she's not on his staff? Just one example of many
17 WOW hahah running for six years now, so people should know who he and his wife r and what kind of people they? most people still haven't started paying attention to the election.but ur right everyone knows about him and his family.
18. Unemployment has been above 8% since Febuary 2009
HAHAHAHAH-5975278: Can you please learn to spell? I have trouble reading what you're trying to say, when you cannot even spell "you." It's very simple; in fact, the word "you" is one of the most basic words in the English language. I would suggest you invest in a dictionary or spell-check or something.
This one is double-duty -- it's also a lie that giving businesses more money will cause them to create jobs. Jobs are an expense, not a product. Some Republicans may be dumb enough not to understand this, but Romney is running as a businessman, so he clearly knows this is true, and repeats the lie anyway.
Bain made a lot of money. Is anyone going to ask Romney how many jobs they created with it? Not the jobs he falsely claims at other companies -- if giving businesses more money causes them to create jobs, then Bain itself should have created a lot of jobs, right?
OK, the first post disappeared, but basically it said: Thanks, Steve, for keeping track of this for the rest of us, because it would make my head explode to do it over and over and over, and also I finally found the time to find you -- my old sign in was taken, so this is from the fan formerly known as SLF at Carpet Bagger and Political Animal. Many thanks.
Hello Rachel,
The temerity of Gov. Romney is astounding. Keep up the good work with respect to keeping him honest. A lot of politicians tend to obfuscate - he on the other hand blatantly lies. It is amazing that the major journalist are not on top of this. I guess the new paradigm is to lie when you can't run on your record and vision for the future. Again, keep shining your light upon this Rachel. I admire you and your work. The best to you and yours...
Sincerely,
Billy
... or Steve.
I LUB YOU STEVE!
1. The President said that to congress bout stimulus package.
2,2009-2011? http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40927097/ns/politics-capitol_hill/t/th-congress-sworn-gop-flexes-muscles/#.T8rkfI4xXss
3. Theres no way to tell except looking at Growth of government jobs.
4 The Debt rose $4.899 trillion during the two terms of the Bush presidency. It has now gone up $4.939 trillion since President Obama took office. debt % of GDP has almost doubled though
5"there was an Effort" never said it became law
6"Do you think President Obama's tax increases will add jobs in America?" Hello romney was asking a question about future Obamas whole campaign is making owners of business pay higher taxes. Ps. Obama care did add cost to business
7 People using iPhones is higher today than it was 4 years ago. Its called massive technology improvement in coal oil and natural gas . Federal production is actually down but on private land has BOOMED.
8 an increase of 153,000 federal jobs since 2009
9. His budget can't be scored because it is IMPOSSIBLLE to predict future Jobs added by companies hiring people once romney gives companies money by lowering their taxes. PS. USA corporate tax rate is highest in world right now
10. You said "
"To date, the Romney hasn't been able to point to any examples of Obama making a personal attack against Romney unrelated to substantive issues" Im glad u get to decide what is a "substantive issues" cause i think calling him a vampire is personal
11 so y don't union teachers and President Obama support letting families choose which school to attend? forcing inner city children to go to awful school seems to be truly caring about kids? hahahah But i think Unions Love Love it.
12 sorry it was 77% http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/johncassidy/2012/01/bain-capital-a-users-guide.html
13 UR so stupid. Obama said in a speech to USA citizens saying if your financially struggling don't go to vegas and lose all ur money. Romney said that Hurt lasvegas since its whole economy is about tourism
14. 80% of small businesses file taxes as individuals. FACT
15.so why is the FBI investigating the deal between solyndra and Obama? In fact, “nearly 200 of his biggest donors have landed plum government jobs and advisory posts, won federal contracts worth millions of dollars for their business interests or attended numerous elite White House meetings and social events, There are so many Obama and michelle obama ties to solyndra its gross.
16Hilary Rosen 36 white house visits, compared to Energy Secretary Stephen/Steve Chu visited 16 times. yea she's not on his staff? Just one example of many
17 WOW hahah running for six years now, so people should know who he and his wife r and what kind of people they? most people still haven't started paying attention to the election.but ur right everyone knows about him and his family.
18. Unemployment has been above 8% since Febuary 2009.
HAHAHAHAH-5975278
1. The President said that to congress bout stimulus package.
2,2009-2011? http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40927097/ns/politics-capitol_hill/t/th-congress-sworn-gop-flexes-muscles/#.T8rkfI4xXss
3. Theres no way to tell except looking at Growth of government jobs.
4 The Debt rose $4.899 trillion during the two terms of the Bush presidency. It has now gone up $4.939 trillion since President Obama took office. debt % of GDP has almost doubled though
5"there was an Effort" never said it became law
6"Do you think President Obama's tax increases will add jobs in America?" Hello romney was asking a question about future Obamas whole campaign is making owners of business pay higher taxes. Ps. Obama care did add cost to business
7 People using iPhones is higher today than it was 4 years ago. Its called massive technology improvement in coal oil and natural gas . Federal production is actually down but on private land has BOOMED.
8 an increase of 153,000 federal jobs since 2009
9. His budget can't be scored because it is IMPOSSIBLLE to predict future Jobs added by companies hiring people once romney gives companies money by lowering their taxes. PS. USA corporate tax rate is highest in world right now
10. You said "
"To date, the Romney hasn't been able to point to any examples of Obama making a personal attack against Romney unrelated to substantive issues" Im glad u get to decide what is a "substantive issues" cause i think calling him a vampire is personal
11 so y don't union teachers and President Obama support letting families choose which school to attend? forcing inner city children to go to awful school seems to be truly caring about kids? hahahah But i think Unions Love Love it.
12 sorry it was 77% http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/johncassidy/2012/01/bain-capital-a-users-guide.html
13 UR so stupid. Obama said in a speech to USA citizens saying if your financially struggling don't go to vegas and lose all ur money. Romney said that Hurt lasvegas since its whole economy is about tourism
14. 80% of small businesses file taxes as individuals. FACT
15.so why is the FBI investigating the deal between solyndra and Obama? In fact, “nearly 200 of his biggest donors have landed plum government jobs and advisory posts, won federal contracts worth millions of dollars for their business interests or attended numerous elite White House meetings and social events, There are so many Obama and michelle obama ties to solyndra its gross.
16Hilary Rosen 36 white house visits, compared to Energy Secretary Stephen/Steve Chu visited 16 times. yea she's not on his staff? Just one example of many
17 WOW hahah running for six years now, so people should know who he and his wife r and what kind of people they? most people still haven't started paying attention to the election.but ur right everyone knows about him and his family.
18. Unemployment has been above 8% since Febuary 2009.
as to #4. can someone please explain to me the "5 trillion dollar in 2 years" quote I hear all the time that Obama added to the debt??? many thanx
Hi Swerver,
It's BS - plain and simple..... This may help you to understand.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/rickungar/2012/05/24/who-is-the-smallest-government-spender-since-eisenhower-would-you-believe-its-barack-obama/
Here are links to websites with budget data:
http://www.fms.treas.gov/mts/index.html
http://www.cbo.gov/publication/42911
You can download an Excel file with historic budget data from 1981 to 2011 with the breakdown - outlays, receipts.
Bottom line is that when the recession hit the revenues for 2009 (Oct-08 to Sep-09) fell off a cliff. Outlays went up (TARP, Recovery Act, Defense spending went up,Mandatory spending went up specifically Medicaid, Income Security (Unemployment, Food Stamps) since so many more people qualified). Result was a bigger deficit.
From Table F-1 just a little snippet of the data
Oh - heck this was a table before I posted it!!! messed up the formatting.
Please note the surplus in 2000 and 2001
Year Receipts Outlays Deficit / Surplus
2000 2,025.2 1,789.0 236.2
2001 1,991.1 1,862.8 128.2
2002 1,853.1 2,010.9 -157.8
2003 1,782.3 2,159.9 -377.6
2004 1,880.1 2,292.8 -412.7
2005 2,153.6 2,472.0 -318.3
2006 2,406.9 2,655.1 -248.2
2007 2,568.0 2,728.7 -160.7
2008 2,524.0 2,982.5 -458.6
2009 2,105.0 3,517.7 -1,412.7
2010 2,162.7 3,456.2 -1,293.5
2011 2,302.5 3,598.1 -1,295.6
Swerver - it sounds like you are confusing debt with deficit. Debt is the total of what we owe those who have purchased government bonds. This carries forward from one year to the next.
Romney's lie in #4 is about deficit. Deficit is the difference in a single fiscal year between revenues and spending.
So your $5 trillion figure is the debt incurred over that 2-year time period. The deficit, $1.3 trillion for this year, is different.
And no matter whether Romney is talking about debt or deficit, he's lying when he says Obama has doubled it. First, neither of them have doubled. Second, Congress is responsbile for collecting revenues (taxes) and appropriating spending - not the President.
Fact: a brand new Navy E2F Hawkeye aircraft cost the taxpayer between 178 to 225 million dollars for just one aircraft, the normal billion dollar aircraft carrier have four to five E2's onboard, there is 13 carriers in the fleet so that means about 13 billion dollars in just one type plane, just think about this one aircraft crash on a carrier could cost of millions of dollars, here is another thought, paying for just 2 Navy E2 planes is the same cost in loans for Solyndra.
Mendacity ....
Synonyms: fable, fabrication, fairy tale, falsehood, falsity, fib, lie, prevarication, story, tale, taradiddle (or tarradiddle), untruth, whopper
Antonyms: truth
My favorite synonym for "mendacity"? Mitt!
I am reading "Our Divided Political Heart" by E. J. Dionne Jr.
This is a fascinating book - everyone should read it!!
My brief summary is that we Americans have always had arguments about where the balance is between individual freedom and the needs of the community.
There are some real discussions about what policies should be followed to address the huge problems this country faces - essentially where the balance between "Liberty" and "E. Pluribus Unum" should be.
But we can't even BEGIN!!! to have these discussions because we can't even seem to agree on what the FACTS are.
*sigh*
I have some training in Six Sigma - Process Excellence - a methodology in common use in business and manufacturing to improve processes and eliminate waste. The very first thing that is done is to analyze the heck out of the situation - all of the process steps, inputs / outputs, all of the factors that affect the outcome, Measure / Graph / Chart / Analyze. whew! when you get that done, only then can you identify how you can improve the process. You have to understand the FACTS - you know - REALITY.
When I listen to President Obama, what I hear generally fits with the facts.
Romney? Again *sigh*
Eugene Robinson is on Morning Joe every other day. He never speaks up, he does not tell Joe and crowd about the lies. He yucks it up with the Joe's clowns. Useless.
I'm with some others here, why do we only hear of all the lies Romney & the GOP spew on Rachel's or Ed's shows, and not on any of MSNBC's daytime shows, much less on NBC's news programming? This is lazy, sloppy, irresponsible journalism at it's height! If truth is to mean anything anymore, why doesn't NBC News do it's job???
ALso I just looked there are several web sites devoted on Obama lies as well. How bout tell us somethig we dont know Rachel. All politicians lie so you pointing it out is kinda amusing.
Rachel Maddow, please keep doing what you do. There are many who enjoy the facts you present each evening. We appreciate your hard word and the great job you do. I love your show. It is enlightening.
1. The President said that to congress bout stimulus package.
2,2009-2011? http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40927097/ns/politics-capitol_hill/t/th-congress-sworn-gop-flexes-muscles/#.T8rkfI4xXss
3. Theres no way to tell except looking at Growth of government jobs.
4 The Debt rose $4.899 trillion during the two terms of the Bush presidency. It has now gone up $4.939 trillion since President Obama took office. debt % of GDP has almost doubled though
5"there was an Effort" never said it became law
6"Do you think President Obama's tax increases will add jobs in America?" Hello romney was asking a question about future Obamas whole campaign is making owners of business pay higher taxes. Ps. Obama care did add cost to business
7 People using iPhones is higher today than it was 4 years ago. Its called massive technology improvement in coal oil and natural gas . Federal production is actually down but on private land has BOOMED.
8 an increase of 153,000 federal jobs since 2009
9. His budget can't be scored because it is IMPOSSIBLLE to predict future Jobs added by companies hiring people once romney gives companies money by lowering their taxes. PS. USA corporate tax rate is highest in world right now
10. You said "
"To date, the Romney hasn't been able to point to any examples of Obama making a personal attack against Romney unrelated to substantive issues" Im glad u get to decide what is a "substantive issues" cause i think calling him a vampire is personal
11 so y don't union teachers and President Obama support letting families choose which school to attend? forcing inner city children to go to awful school seems to be truly caring about kids? hahahah But i think Unions Love Love it.
12 sorry it was 77% http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/johncassidy/2012/01/bain-capital-a-users-guide.html
13 UR so stupid. Obama said in a speech to USA citizens saying if your financially struggling don't go to vegas and lose all ur money. Romney said that Hurt lasvegas since its whole economy is about tourism
14. 80% of small businesses file taxes as individuals. FACT
15.so why is the FBI investigating the deal between solyndra and Obama? In fact, “nearly 200 of his biggest donors have landed plum government jobs and advisory posts, won federal contracts worth millions of dollars for their business interests or attended numerous elite White House meetings and social events, There are so many Obama and michelle obama ties to solyndra its gross.
16Hilary Rosen 36 white house visits, compared to Energy Secretary Stephen/Steve Chu visited 16 times. yea she's not on his staff? Just one example of many
17 WOW hahah running for six years now, so people should know who he and his wife r and what kind of people they? most people still haven't started paying attention to the election.but ur right everyone knows about him and his family.
18. Unemployment has been above 8% since Febuary 2009.
Haha
R U really
Mitt Romney?!
Since so many commentators are afraid to confront Mitt's lies, I offer an alternative. Mr. Romney "did you mean to tell the truth when you said...........?" Of course this means he must be caught in a true statement.
The list gets LONGER each week. I've never seen anyone except serial killer Ted Bundy who could lie with such smoothness and without a hint of discomfort or mixed emotions about the lying.... In fact, he looked to me like he was ENJOYING lying. A true sociopath.
Apparently Romney was a sleazy businessman who cheated on bids and charged more after winning contracts than he said he would: he was actually disliked by fellow businessmen and Wall Street for being such a cheater.
1. The President said that to congress bout stimulus package.
2,2009-2011? http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40927097/ns/politics-capitol_hill/t/th-congress-sworn-gop-flexes-muscles/#.T8rkfI4xXss
3. Theres no way to tell except looking at Growth of government jobs.
4 The Debt rose $4.899 trillion during the two terms of the Bush presidency. It has now gone up $4.939 trillion since President Obama took office. debt % of GDP has almost doubled though
5"there was an Effort" never said it became law
6"Do you think President Obama's tax increases will add jobs in America?" Hello romney was asking a question about future Obamas whole campaign is making owners of business pay higher taxes. Ps. Obama care did add cost to business
7 People using iPhones is higher today than it was 4 years ago. Its called massive technology improvement in coal oil and natural gas . Federal production is actually down but on private land has BOOMED.
8 an increase of 153,000 federal jobs since 2009
9. His budget can't be scored because it is IMPOSSIBLLE to predict future Jobs added by companies hiring people once romney gives companies money by lowering their taxes. PS. USA corporate tax rate is highest in world right now
10. You said "
"To date, the Romney hasn't been able to point to any examples of Obama making a personal attack against Romney unrelated to substantive issues" Im glad u get to decide what is a "substantive issues" cause i think calling him a vampire is personal
11 so y don't union teachers and President Obama support letting families choose which school to attend? forcing inner city children to go to awful school seems to be truly caring about kids? hahahah But i think Unions Love Love it.
12 sorry it was 77% http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/johncassidy/2012/01/bain-capital-a-users-guide.html
13 UR so stupid. Obama said in a speech to USA citizens saying if your financially struggling don't go to vegas and lose all ur money. Romney said that Hurt lasvegas since its whole economy is about tourism
14. 80% of small businesses file taxes as individuals. FACT
15.so why is the FBI investigating the deal between solyndra and Obama? In fact, “nearly 200 of his biggest donors have landed plum government jobs and advisory posts, won federal contracts worth millions of dollars for their business interests or attended numerous elite White House meetings and social events, There are so many Obama and michelle obama ties to solyndra its gross.
16Hilary Rosen 36 white house visits, compared to Energy Secretary Stephen/Steve Chu visited 16 times. yea she's not on his staff? Just one example of many
17 WOW hahah running for six years now, so people should know who he and his wife r and what kind of people they? most people still haven't started paying attention to the election.but ur right everyone knows about him and his family.
18. Unemployment has been above 8% since Febuary 2009.
Pond scum..I heard that the liberals/progressives are just pond scum. Isn't that algae, that GREEN stuff that grows, it isn't poured into, the pond. Pond scum is natural. It isn't a pollutant like oil. It really grows when it has adequate sunlight. Algae is also good to eat in certain conditions, for certain organisms, and is being looked into as a way to produce a base for fuel production. So pond scum ain't so bad.
Oil is not natural? i always thought they pulled it out of the Earth?
1. The President said that to congress bout stimulus package.
2,2009-2011? http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40927097/ns/politics-capitol_hill/t/th-congress-sworn-gop-flexes-muscles/#.T8rkfI4xXss
3. Theres no way to tell except looking at Growth of government jobs.
4 The Debt rose $4.899 trillion during the two terms of the Bush presidency. It has now gone up $4.939 trillion since President Obama took office. debt % of GDP has almost doubled though
5"there was an Effort" never said it became law
6"Do you think President Obama's tax increases will add jobs in America?" Hello romney was asking a question about future Obamas whole campaign is making owners of business pay higher taxes. Ps. Obama care did add cost to business
7 People using iPhones is higher today than it was 4 years ago. Its called massive technology improvement in coal oil and natural gas . Federal production is actually down but on private land has BOOMED.
8 an increase of 153,000 federal jobs since 2009
9. His budget can't be scored because it is IMPOSSIBLLE to predict future Jobs added by companies hiring people once romney gives companies money by lowering their taxes. PS. USA corporate tax rate is highest in world right now
10. You said "
"To date, the Romney hasn't been able to point to any examples of Obama making a personal attack against Romney unrelated to substantive issues" Im glad u get to decide what is a "substantive issues" cause i think calling him a vampire is personal
11 so y don't union teachers and President Obama support letting families choose which school to attend? forcing inner city children to go to awful school seems to be truly caring about kids? hahahah But i think Unions Love Love it.
12 sorry it was 77% http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/johncassidy/2012/01/bain-capital-a-users-guide.html
13 UR so stupid. Obama said in a speech to USA citizens saying if your financially struggling don't go to vegas and lose all ur money. Romney said that Hurt lasvegas since its whole economy is about tourism
14. 80% of small businesses file taxes as individuals. FACT
15.so why is the FBI investigating the deal between solyndra and Obama? In fact, “nearly 200 of his biggest donors have landed plum government jobs and advisory posts, won federal contracts worth millions of dollars for their business interests or attended numerous elite White House meetings and social events, There are so many Obama and michelle obama ties to solyndra its gross.
16Hilary Rosen 36 white house visits, compared to Energy Secretary Stephen/Steve Chu visited 16 times. yea she's not on his staff? Just one example of many
17 WOW hahah running for six years now, so people should know who he and his wife r and what kind of people they? most people still haven't started paying attention to the election.but ur right everyone knows about him and his family.
18. Unemployment has been above 8% since Febuary 2009
Nice list; why don't you create the same list for Obama...it wouldn't fit, right?
What a laugh...Bill Clinton just stuck it to Obama in Wisconsin when he said that Mitt Romney has a "sterling" business record and that coupled with being an ex-Governor are great credentials to be President. Couldn't get better than that. Guess Bill is getting even with Obama for calling him a racist during Hillary's campaign. Why isn't Obama supporting you guys in Wisconsin....he flew right over your state today and was in MN and ILL. How much closer could he have gotten. He is distancing himself from all of you...he didn't want you to do a recall in the first place. Retribution time!!
"What's different today is that there is so much information available to help people make sense of the political discourse and discern the difference between an exaggeration and a pants-on-fire lie," Bill Adair, PolitiFact (your fav) said.
So, now, we have Mitt "Pants on Fire" Romney surrounded by surrogates Donald "Bloviated Ignoramus" Trump, Gov. Ultrasound (aka Gov. Vaginal Probe). I can't wait until Rick "Attack Dog" Rubio gets picked for Veep. And, please, could we start reaching out to Chris Christie, Ann Colter, and hear a little more from Rush, Bill and Sean so we get them fitting monikers. The Scott Walker nickname of "Divide & Conquer" is way too serious. We can probably leave Rove and Koch alone as they are already 4-letter words who are usually referenced in terms of other 4-letter words.
sorry if we ruffled Mitt's feathers, but we were not sent by Obama. Very grass roots... I called everyone myself :) check it out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8cifpVkPwY
Along with the 80% figure for Bain, he said it was better than Obama's 0% success rate, which is lying out of both his faces.
Successful businesses hire people only when they need more work done. The only thing wealthy business owners with extra money buy is more politicians.
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1. The President said that to congress bout stimulus package.
2,2009-2011? http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40927097/ns/politics-capitol_hill/t/th-congress-sworn-gop-flexes-muscles/#.T8rkfI4xXss
3. Theres no way to tell except looking at Growth of government jobs.
4 The Debt rose $4.899 trillion during the two terms of the Bush presidency. It has now gone up $4.939 trillion since President Obama took office. debt % of GDP has almost doubled though
5"there was an Effort" never said it became law
6"Do you think President Obama's tax increases will add jobs in America?" Hello romney was asking a question about future Obamas whole campaign is making owners of business pay higher taxes. Ps. Obama care did add cost to business
7 People using iPhones is higher today than it was 4 years ago. Its called massive technology improvement in coal oil and natural gas . Federal production is actually down but on private land has BOOMED.
8 an increase of 153,000 federal jobs since 2009
9. His budget can't be scored because it is IMPOSSIBLLE to predict future Jobs added by companies hiring people once romney gives companies money by lowering their taxes. PS. USA corporate tax rate is highest in world right now
10. You said "
"To date, the Romney hasn't been able to point to any examples of Obama making a personal attack against Romney unrelated to substantive issues" Im glad u get to decide what is a "substantive issues" cause i think calling him a vampire is personal
11 so y don't union teachers and President Obama support letting families choose which school to attend? forcing inner city children to go to awful school seems to be truly caring about kids? hahahah But i think Unions Love Love it.
12 sorry it was 77% http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/johncassidy/2012/01/bain-capital-a-users-guide.html
13 UR so stupid. Obama said in a speech to USA citizens saying if your financially struggling don't go to vegas and lose all ur money. Romney said that Hurt lasvegas since its whole economy is about tourism
14. 80% of small businesses file taxes as individuals. FACT
15.so why is the FBI investigating the deal between solyndra and Obama? In fact, “nearly 200 of his biggest donors have landed plum government jobs and advisory posts, won federal contracts worth millions of dollars for their business interests or attended numerous elite White House meetings and social events, There are so many Obama and michelle obama ties to solyndra its gross.
16Hilary Rosen 36 white house visits, compared to Energy Secretary Stephen/Steve Chu visited 16 times. yea she's not on his staff? Just one example of many
17 WOW hahah running for six years now, so people should know who he and his wife r and what kind of people they? most people still haven't started paying attention to the election.but ur right everyone knows about him and his family.
18. Unemployment has been above 8% since Febuary 2009.