2) Is debatable. Politifact argues that Clinton did more. The fact that this is a bragging point is of more concern. Deregulation is the root cause of every mess we are in.
4) Is true. If you replace the FBI with a system of vouchers for people to buy mercenary protection on the open market, but call the new program FBI, you have ended the previous program.
6) Rand Paul has said that he'd repeal the civil rights act.
Maddow:... How about desegregating lunch counters?
Paul: Well what it gets into then is if you decide that restaurants are publicly owned and not privately owned, then do you say that you should have the right to bring your gun into a restaurant even though the owner of the restaurant says 'well no, we don't want to have guns in here' the bar says 'we don't want to have guns in here because people might drink and start fighting and shoot each-other.' Does the owner of the restaurant own his restaurant? Or does the government own his restaurant? These are important philosophical debates but not a very practical discussion...
Maddow: Well, it was pretty practical to the people who had the life nearly beaten out of them trying to desegregate Walgreen's lunch counters despite these esoteric debates about what it means about ownership. This is not a hypothetical Dr. Paul.
Some obviously do.
8) Republicans ran for office on the idea that government can't do anything right. Their tool box consists of 3 square pegs labeled "corporate welfare", "tax cuts for the rich" and "give tax money to christian churches" each round hole problem presented to them will have one of these square pegs driven into it.
Their "job creating" efforts are no different. If I do faith healing on my car or hire an exorcist out of a belief that tools are instruments of the devil, and "are not the solution, but the problem", am I really "working on it"?
Government is a tool, and elected officials are the mechanics. A mechanic who believes the tool that has been entrusted to them is unsuitable for any purpose, will be as useless at their job as elected Republicans have proven to be.
10)
"Do you deny that you are a man who wants to redistribute wealth?" O'Reilly asked.
Obama first noted the conservatism of the Wall Street Journal's editorial page, then denied the charge "absolutely."
"I didn't raise taxes once. I lowered taxes over the last two years," Obama said.
That's the exact quote. Obama was defending his administration from accusations of raising taxes
in aggregate. He hasn't.
This is the same old false-equivalency, "fair and balanced" (we're going to sit boy-girl, which means one Republican lie sits next to one potentially arguable Democratic claim) BS that brought us Fox News.
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