Do you want the steak or only the sizzle? Do you want the truth or only a slick presentation of the Big Lie?

English: Clarence S. Darrow (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

"Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even if you never touch its coat tails."

----- Clarence Darrow

Mitt Romney just went on that debate stage and lied to the American people.

We’ve got one month until the election. If we don’t have the resources to win, America will get Mitt Romney and a Republican Congress.

Will you donate $3 or more right now to call out Republican lies?

It's moments like this that will decide this election. Let’s go win this thing.

Ryan

Ryan Jham
DCCC Rapid Response Director

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Romney claims he isn't advocating a $5 trillion tax cut for his rich supporters.
Here's what the non-partisan, nonprofit Tax Policy Center says about Romney's plan:

http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/taxtopics/romney-plan.cfm

And here's how another non-patisan, non-profit organization summarized the TPC's report:


Tax experts — including one who supports Romney’s plan — say the Republican presidential candidate’s promise to cut individual income tax rates without either favoring the wealthy or losing revenue isn’t mathematically possible.
That’s the conclusion of the Tax Policy Center in a report the Romney campaign attacked as “biased” (although the campaign previously praised the TPC as “objective,” when it issued a report critical of a rival’s tax plan).

More:  http://factcheck.org/2012/08/romneys-impossible-tax-promise/

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Obamacare does not take money away from us elderly folks, as Romney claims.


"That amount — $716 billion — refers to Obamacare's reductions in Medicare spending over 10 years, primarily paid to insurers and hospitals," says PolitiFact. So there is a basis for the number. But, it adds, "the statement gives the impression that the law takes money already allocated to Medicare away from current recipients," which is why it gets only a "half true" rating.
The New York Times writes that Obama "did not cut benefits by $716 billion over 10 years as part of his 2010 health care law; rather, he reduced Medicare reimbursements to health care providers, chiefly insurance companies and drug manufacturers. And the law gave Medicare recipients more generous benefits for prescription drugs and free preventive care like mammograms."

More:  http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2012/10/03/162263539/romney-goes-on-offense-pays-for-it-in-first-wave-of-fact-checks

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So... if it's the sizzle you want, yeh, Mutt Romney sizzled a bit last night.  But if it's the steak --- the truth --- you're chasing after, then run from Romney.  You won't find it hanging from his coat tails.