The lying was blatant and  easily checked.....so what is up?   I think we can look to Paul Ryan's idol, Ayn Rand and her "Noble" lie, a lie justified in her mind as one told for the great and good purpose.  Of course, balancing Rand and the Eighth Commandment (Augustian), thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor will be needed when he faces his friend, the honest eminence, Cardinal Dolan.

I am from Wisconsin and that Janesville plant is something I drove by so many times.  The first GF I had in Texas had a Janesville Tahoe, huge tag on the driver door.  Although i didn't know anyone who worked there, that plant seemed to go on for miles, and thinking how small that town is, just makes me sad that it closed.

In truth a Presidential candidate shouldn't claim he has the ability to keep a plant open, those are people's lives.  People who may have had options, but passed because of his promise.  Just another promise Obama failed to keep.

And I wish Ryan had succeeded and kept those jobs, and I am not faulting that.  The poorer my birth state becomes the more I fear it will turn red.  I just hate how he's ready to slash in every direction until it actually comes down to his 'territory', then exceptions are made.  I hate that Ryan badmouths the very union workers he tried to save to look tough with the idiots in his party.  I hate that he lies with such impunity on a national stage, mostly because when it's all said and done, his hide is far more important then the very people who elected him in Wisconsin.  I hate that the R's have decided that Obama was wrong and Ryan was right when they essentially were doing the same thing, just on different scales and now they are holding it against Obama and Ryan can't help himself but pile on.

I know a lot of people there, including many students who could not return to college, after many family members lost jobs not just at the GM plant but also in the many peripheral businesses reliant upon it.

I also know the filmmaker of "As Goes Janesville" and have seen previews.  Watch your theaters (or possibly soon online) for showings that will break your heart.

General Motors had initially announced in June 2008 that the plant would be closed in 2010, but the severe economic downturn in the fall of 2008 led GM to accelerate its timetable. Over 1,000 employees were laid off in Janesville.

There is descent chance they could get the Senate and the Presidency and they will keep the House.  Right now I am feeling good about the filibuster.

My premise as to the promise of bona fide negotiations in a second term stems from views about "power"--its acquisition & retention--dating back to Machiavelli(and, undoubtedly, earlier.)  In shorthand: Rulers, regimes, people don't cede power willingly...usually.  There may be pretenses about it, such as setting up new mechanisms & fronts and dribbling out crumbs with little agreements.  But, when the dynamics shift via seismic populace shifts, everyone knows that the obstruction & feints won't cut it.  That is why, IMO, the overt emphasis on voter suppression this go-round, since the coupling of voter ID front with heightened appeals to racism signify a crossing-the-line attempt in aggressive ways to obtain/retain power.

I can't speak for the commenter who brought the Cutter-to-Mitchell quote in, but I read it simply as proof that Dems were very much onto Ryan's problem with the truth, making it likely that Dems were going to be making an issue of it.  Which they absolutely should do.

The point was Ryan's lying; you decided to make it about Stephanie Cutter, whose believability in this instance was more or less a non sequitur, since what she said was as obvious as saying "the sun rises in the east."

School started for him 2 weeks ago, 7th grade, different periods and teachers.  We have been "discussing" an IEP for him.  The school tells me that an IEP for Joshua requires a 60 day study to even determine if he qualifies.  Not that I flatly believe them on any of this.  They attempted to first tell me that he didn't qualify because he doesn't have learning disabilities or retardation.  What a load of bull$hit.  He has a profound hearing loss and I know my federal laws.  When I dead eyed flatly told his counselor that, she backtracked quickly, said that perhaps she was wrong.  No, it isn't perhaps you are wrong....You are just plain and simple WRONG!

The Junior High has begged me to let them prove they can provide for Josh without an IEP though.  I acquiesced.  It reminds me a bit of being able to take advantage of the fact that there are Unions and Union rights though, it affects things for everyone on the playing field but if you aren't participating and playing THAT game you may be enabling the end of Unions or IEPs.

Never much of an Eastwood the actor fan; always hated his too macho by half on-screen tough guy performance, not far from his off-screen persona apparently, at least for a long while.  

As for his directing, it's cliched warmed over Spielberg.  Not much original or memorable, from the half the oeuvre I've been forced to watch.

Ironic that the allegedly principled and no nonsense tough guy, anti-slick pol, independent minded Eastwood appears ready to endorse a famously unprincipled, finger-to-the-wind slick talking empty shell of a pol.