Lies

The non-stop cataract of lies from the GOP will of course continue. They won in 2002 with lies about Iraq, in 2004 with lies about Kerry, in 2010 with lies about health reform and Medicare. Because Democrats are unaccountably averse to defending themselves from these attacks.

Of course lying is easier when no one can contradict you. The GOP now has a new tool to keep prevent non-Republican views from getting out. Congressional Democrats use the congressional mailing system to contact their constituents with mailers, political information and so forth, just as Republicans do. But now the House Republicans are using the House Administration Committee to block Democratic mailers which assert, correctly, that the Ryan budget plan ends Medicare. The Republicans are delaying the mailers and demanding revisions. In other words, Congressional Democrats can no longer talk to voters in their districts unless the GOP approves, but their Republican challengers next year can say whatever they want – in fact the Republican mailers are already out there, praising Ryan’s plan and claiming that it’s the Democrats who want to kill Medicare. In a word: censorship.