Saturday Politics

As I watched the presidential debate Wednesday, I was amazed at the number of obviously dishonest things Mitt Romney said.  I kept saying "He's going to get in trouble for that," but after the debate everyone just said that he won, pundits and the public alike.  What he was saying wasn't true, but that didn't matter.  One post I read said he used a "Gish Gallop," named after a creationist debater, meaning he just threw out so much BS that his opponent couldn't counter it all.

I wrote this Daily Kos diary yesterday.  Like most of my Daily Kos stuff, it didn't get much attention, I think because my posts are usually opinion rather than any information.  Still, not much attention on DK means 3 comments, 4 recommendations, 6 shares, 1 tweet, and 52 views so far.

What I Hope the President Will Say in the Next Debate

At some point, Mitt Romney well tell a major lie during the next debate. He may repeat his claim that he can pay for military increases because he is not going to cut taxes, or he may talk about the President's apology tour, or maybe both of those and lots more. And when he does, I hope the President will say something like this:

"Governor Romney, during the last debate, you said that I could have my own house and my own plane, but not my own facts. (I don't own my own plane, but if I ever want to buy one, I appreciate that I have your permission to do so.)

Well Governor, you are not entitled to have your own private universe with your own rules. You stood on the stage in Denver during the last debate, and after campaigning for 18 months, saying that you would cut taxes for everyone, even the top 1%, you suddenly decided that you weren't going to do that, that you never intended to do that. The health care plan you propose won't allow people with pre-existing conditions to get health insurance, but suddenly you said it will. Your own campaign, right after the debate, had to admit that that just wasn't so. You said that you would repeal Dodd-Frank, but then you said that you would keep bank regulations. You claimed that 50% of the green energy companies my administration invested in have gone bankrupt. After the debate, your own campaign admitted that you were simply wrong about that, not even close, not even in the right ballpark.

Anyone can stand up here on stage and talk about all the wonderful things they are going to do, but your comments need to be rooted in reality, the reality of THIS universe. And in this universe, the one the rest of us live in, you can't give everyone, even the top 1%, a tax cut and at the same time NOT give them a tax cut. You can't protect people with pre-existing conditions with a plan that doesn't allow people with pre-existing conditions to get health insurance. In this universe, you can't repeal regulations on Wall Street and at the same time keep those regulations in place. In the real universe, the only one any of us knows about, those things just aren't possible. They don't add up.

This "apology tour" you refer to never happened. Not in this universe, not in any universe. That claim, which you have made over and over, has been fact-checked by news organizations across the country, and it just isn't true. It never happened. That's a fact.

I will NEVER apologize..."

You can take it from there, Mr. President. Go get him.