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It's Daily Kos so.....but nonetheless here's Paul Ryan continuing to be less than honest -- (link)

Posted by ty97 Sep 10 '12, 16:33

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link (www.dailykos.com)

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I sort of see his point. I mean, the whole point was to threaten cuts so big that only a group of complete idiot cravens could fail to come to a deal - Roger More Sep 10, 17:34 9
- The way I read it, there were defense cuts in the bill that had nothing to do with the committee/triggers. - ty97 Sep 10, 17:43 2
  - Looking it up, the act makes $917B in spending cuts over the next 10 years, but I haven't found anything that says they touch defence. -- nm - Roger More Sep 10, 17:50 1
    - see below -- nm - ty97 Sep 10, 17:50
- Which makes him Tom Cruise in Collateral. "I didn't kill him - the bullets and the fall killed him." -- nm - Reagen Sep 10, 17:35 5
  - He's left with no option but to say "When we voted for that trigger, we underestimated how dumb we were" - Roger More Sep 10, 17:43 4
    - "The bill directly specified $917 billion of cuts over 10 years" - ty97 Sep 10, 17:47 3
      - source link -- (link) - ty97 Sep 10, 17:48 2
        
        Here: "The Budget Control Act mandated $917 billion in federal spending cuts over a 10-year period, including some $487 billion in defense cuts." - ty97 Sep 10, 17:50 1
        
        Ah, thanks. -- nm - Roger More Sep 10, 17:53
It's hard to imagine a sleazier and scummier Pres/VP ticket than Romney and Ryan. They'll say anything. -- nm - Don Homer Sep 10, 16:59 2
- Kerry/Edwards. I win. -- nm - Will Hunting Sep 10, 17:00 1
  - Edwards, yes. I didn't really find Kerry scummy, just pointless. -- nm - ty97 Sep 10, 17:43
"nomenclature". I like that. Heh heh heh heh. -- nm - Dubya Sep 10, 16:55
They're really just quoting him. Honestly there are times when it reminds me of a scene from a movie where a woman catches her husband in bed with - pmb Sep 10, 16:54 1
- /nods/ I think I could pull that off. -- nm - Don Draper Sep 10, 17:01
He's learning from Romney. -- nm - CovingtonCat Sep 10, 16:42

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