P.O.F.

Coffee buzz kicking in.... let's do this.

About Last Night.

It is just NOT worth the blood pressure spike for me to watch any of the now running GOP convention. Broke the rule last night and watched Congressman Paul Ryan give his speech. ( was it his acceptance speech? I could not tell ...)

Neil and I have been together for 300 years and he is still still amazed/shocked at how this effects me.
" why are you so angry ?' he asked.
 It was not anger is was passion - and amazement.

For starters , I just can not believe that his overall effect is genuine. His " Tomorrow belongs to me/us" swagger of youth seems as put on as the gel in his 14 year old boy haircut. He is Mr. Work out - Mr. PDX 90 or what ever it is - and yet he ALWAYS wears cloths that look like they were handed down from his older chubbier brother - which is not what the fitness crowd does. He is rich, he comes from money, and his wife made a killing as a K street lackey - he could afford cloths that fit ( and the Romney campaign could, ala S. Palin - kick in a little RL Black Label and a tailor....) It is not just me on this one, others have picked it up. A hardly subtle toss to the the mother him or f**k him base...But this is what they want, the hang dog, "I'm jist a cheesehead boy come to save Amerca!" . When in fact he has never had a grown up job out side of the Government that he has so much disdain for.

It is very hard for me to wrap my over read brain around someone NOT knowing who Paul Ryan is - YOUNG GUN and all. But that is what I am told last night was : 

Hey! Nicky Arnstein, here I am : Paul Ryan/GOP style.

The Un-Palins

So here is he, the Pride of Janesville, Wisconsin, tossed American Idol style on to the big stage where he told bold face, fact checkable, deliberate lies.

It's all the internet is about this morning - going as far as FOX NEWS calling him out for the extreme amount of fibbing.

It is all anyone is really talking about today - NOT the glories of the convention. From FOX NEWS : ( FOX NEWS !! )
To anyone paying the slightest bit of attention to facts, Ryan’s speech was an apparent attempt to set the world record for the greatest number of blatant lies and misrepresentations slipped into a single political speech. On this measure, while it was Romney who ran the Olympics, Ryan earned the gold.
The good news is that the Romney-Ryan campaign has likely created dozens of new jobs among the legions of additional fact checkers that media outlets are rushing to hire to sift through the mountain of cow dung that flowed from Ryan’s mouth. Said fact checkers have already condemned certain arguments that Ryan still irresponsibly repeated.

•  Fact: While Ryan tried to pin the downgrade of the United States’ credit rating on spending under President Obama, the credit rating was actually downgraded because Republicans threatened not to raise the debt ceiling. 
• Fact: While Ryan blamed President Obama for the shut down of a GM plant in Janesville, Wisconsin, the plant was actually closed under President George W. Bush. Ryan actually asked for federal spending to save the plant, while Romney has criticized the auto industry bailout that President Obama ultimately enacted to prevent other plants from closing. 
• Fact: Though Ryan insisted that President Obama wants to give all the credit for private sector success to government, that isn't what the president said. Period.
•  Fact: Though Paul Ryan accused President Obama of taking $716 billion out of Medicare, the fact is that that amount was savings in Medicare reimbursement rates (which, incidentally, save Medicare recipients out-of-pocket costs, too) and Ryan himself embraced these savings in his budget plan. 

Elections should be about competing based on your record in the past and your vision for the future, not competing to see who can get away with the most lies and distortions without voters noticing or bother to care. Both parties should hold themselves to that standard. Republicans should be ashamed that there was even one misrepresentation in Ryan’s speech but sadly, there were many.

This is everywhere, I only used this because its the home base of the GOP.
THE even more interesting thing I learned much later this afternoon ( I started this post this morning, then got busy ) is that "The fourth episode of TLC‘s “Here Comes Honey Boo Boo,” a show that makes “Jersey Shore” look like “Masterpiece Classic,” drew more viewers in the 18-49 age group on Wednesday night than the second full night of the Republican National Convention."

And tonight its the kick off SEC FOOTBALL for Mitts to compete with ... HA!