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the Real Scandal Hurting the Country
If you flipped on a news or entertainment program for the last two weeks, you have likely been inundated with news and jokes about the three "scandals" affecting the Obama administration. Of course, if the job of the press is to report on how elected officials' conduct impacts how we live our day-to-day lives, and on behavior that is consciously and directly bad for the vast majority of the country, there should be a tsunami of coverage of Republicans in power in Congress who are trying to subvert American democracy. Specifically, Republicans in the Senate are abusing the filibuster to keep jobs -- in both the executive and judicial branches -- unfilled while sitting idly by and letting economic growth take a hit in the name of ideology.
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Permalink Reply by ProblemAgain on
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there really are no scandals. unfortunately the democrats have let the republicans craft the narrative rather than having the democrats get the facts out in front of the dubious conspiracy witch hunts the right has fashioned by altering reality.
Why Fact-Checkers Find More GOP Lies
Associated Press; PolitiFactPolitiFact rated Republican claims to be "false" or "pants on fire" three times more often than it rated Democratic claims that way this year, according to a new study by the Center for Media and Public Affairs at George Mason University. So: Does the GOP lie more? Is PolitiFact biased? Or do GOP liars — like fact-checking "dream" Michele Bachmann — get more attention?
The Pulitzer prize-winning PolitiFact is run by the Tampa Bay Times, and its reporters and editors sort politicians' claims into one of six categories: true, mostly true, half true, mostly false, false, and pants on fire — the last having an element of the "ridiculous." You can see how those ratings break down for both parties in the pie charts at right. A majority of Democratic claims were rated true; a majority of Republican claims were rated false. CMPA points out that PolitiFact found more Republican lies even in May — though there are three agency scandals facing the Obama administration: over the IRS targeting conservative groups, over the State Department's talking points about Benghazi, and over the Justice Department's investigation into leakers. This month, 60 percent of Republican claims have been rated as lies, while 29 percent of Democratic claims have been.
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2013/05/politifact-lies-rep...
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Permalink Reply by exedir on
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Scandal is narrative. And no, it doesn't have to be criminal, just a good story based on, well, and that is the rub. Whose facts are they, what are those facts and what remains untold and ultimately, it is the court of public opinion that counts in politics. And yes, O.J. did it, or did he?
The Clinton administration had a number of these going from the get-go, most left with a muddle of facts, or lack of facts that let the Republicans and media able to create a narrative that, that administration had some success in overcoming. Yet, there is a disquiet in that the stories seemed to have always been in question and not necessarily because of facts involved, they didn't always make sense or the sense that those that were telling the story want it to, but always left with the conundrum of ...what the meaning of the word 'is' is....
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Permalink Reply by LoveLife&Laughter on
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...just trying to fact-check. What facts?
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From the news tonight...
The eurozone marks the epicenter of Europe's debt crisis. But other countries in the region are also struggling to recover. Some, like Britain, are focused on shrinking their deficits even while demand in their main export market – the eurozone – is falling.
As a result, unemployment in the wider 27-nation EU, which includes the non-euro countries such as Britain and Poland, has risen in recent months. In April, the rate remained 11 percent.
A key factor behind Europe's economic decline has been a broad focus on paring debt by raising taxes and slashing spending. As long as many governments continue to cut spending and the confidence of consumers and businesses remains low, economists don't expect any meaningful recovery in coming months.
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In the Eurozone there was an attempt, say, with a German accent, there was no free lunch and that nations had to control their expenditures and incur only certain levels of sustainable debt, or, and its the 'or' that is the crux for Europe. Most of those that spent, continued to spend(those on the Mediterranean coast) and incur unsustainable debt while German backstopped the overall currency union. The day of reckoning, or days of reckoning occurred including German financed bailouts that continue to make the Euro viable.
In the end, the problem is still growth, how is it to be done and with whose funds. The Pound is tied to Europe and can't lead as an independent currency with the British mired in the same problems as Europe, no or slow growth.
In some sense, what has happened is Europe including the British are now tied together and as such, tied up in making decisions and policies that no one can really get done in that each nation in the union has their independence and sovereignty, and national constituents to consider particularly if you are not German and the Germans don't like debt, their debt and others spending.
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