I was told by someone that Mitt Romney lied about a certain incident. Do you think Mitt Romney lied about soemthing?

I think that whatever interest you may have in a stonger economy is completely smothered by a passionate thirst to gloat that Obama went down to defeat. Nothing else really seems to matter to you; otherwise, you would eschew GOP propaganda and you would study what measures would restore a robust economy to the US. If you are so enthralled to corporatist propaganda that you know of no measures that would bring back a roaring economy, start with Robert Reich.

If you don't know of those measures, by the way, you are less informed than are the people--especially Karl Rove and the Koch Brothers--who do know. They simply oppose those measures with all their gut.

What folks who feel this way deliberately ignore are the consequences of a GOP win. How many jobs bills did the House propose after their 2010 victory? While there were none, what we got were votes opposing Obamacare, votes against abortion, votes against women's rights, and all sorts of attempts to pander to fundamentalist "Christians" on social issues.

The economy could be better--and it would be had the GOP not been voting--unanimously--against bills that create jobs or that lower taxes on us all (except for the wealthiest 2%).

I cannot begin to agree with your GOP talking points, however. Nowhere can you find a credible source describing Obama as "inept". ("Clearly" is your "embelllishment".) Nowhere can you find a credible source for falsely alleging that Sen. Reid thinks we need no budget. "Dems" and most scholars (as opposed to lobbyist and GOP-sponsoring SUPERPACS) recognize that GWB/Cheney/Rove policies took us from high employment and budget surplus to immense debt and job net job monthly losses of about one-half million a month, but they know that putting spending money in the hands of the poor and middle classes would increase demand and create jobs by the millions. They have proposed to do so by attempting a bill that would rebuild and modernize our physical infrastructure (defeated by unanimous GOP obstruction), by trying to lower taxes for everyone but the wealthiest two percent of Americans (defeated by unanimous GOP obstruction, whose Tampa platform proposes the reverse: raise taxes on us and lower them on the ultra-wealthy!); in fact, in keeping with Mitch McConnell's cynical one-minded purpose, the GOP has opposed any Obama measure that might lower the misery index in the US, hoping that--as in 2010--the Democrats will be defeated and blamed for GOP obstructionism.

Joshua Holland, author of "The 15 Biggest Lies about the Economy (and Everything else the Right Doesn't Want You to Know About Taxes, Jobs and Corporate America)", puts it this way:

"…The GOP promises to create and pass some sort of tax scheme sometime over the next decade, but they've also sworn not to increase taxes in order to balance the budget and history suggests they'd fight tooth-and-nail to block such a measure. Again, we see a scam packaged as a “brave” budget proposal.

Make no mistake, however—while the plan's deficit reduction is largely fantasy, the pain it would impose on working America is very real. Almost two-thirds of the $4.5 trillion in spending cuts over the next 10 years come from programs that help those with lower incomes…the GOP's Medicare privatization scheme would INCREASE THE COST OF THE PROGRAM BY UPWARDS OF 40 PERCENT, but it would sharply cut the tab the government picks up, instead SHIFTING THE BURDEN ONTO OLDER PEOPLE THEMSELVES.

…the plan “creates an unprecedented new fast-track procedure to ram through Social Security benefit cuts.”

…The GOP's plan would not only make the “Bush tax cuts” permanent As [the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities] CPBB notes, the tax proposals “place a top priority on cutting taxes for high-income people, while doing nothing to reduce budget deficits, themselves, simply redistributing more of the nation's wealth to those at the top of the economic heap.

…Newt Gingrich has never been more correct than when he characterized it as right-wing “social engineering.” But the real crime has been committed by the corporate media—not only for calling the plan “courageous” and “serious,” but for referring to it in the context of deficit reduction in the first place."

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