Bad Deeds for 9-16-2010

Republicans Have Been Lying About the Deficit – The Treasury says that the deficit for August of this year is 13% lower than that of the August of last year, and 8% lower than the first 11 months of the current fiscal year over the prior matching period.

Republican Fiscal Plan Would Raise Debt Nearly $4 Trillion – The tax plan put forward this week by Republican leaders in Congress would add nearly $4 trillion to the national debt, making it roughly four times as expensive as the Democrats’ health reforms. The Republican plan includes a cut to the estate tax “that would gift $91 billion to the richest 0.25 percent of households.

Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh Lied about Republican Candidate According to Republican Candidate – In an interview with Fox News Wednesday, Rep. Mike Castle (R-Del.) said that a “significant” reason for his Senate primary loss to Christine O’Donnell was because of “misrepresentations” about his record by conservative radio personalities like Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh. During the campaign, O’Donnell backers said Castle voted for Obamacare (he didn’t) the stimulus (he didn’t) and now, the impeachment of Bush (he didn’t).

Republicans Harbor Racist Views According to Former Republican Leader – Jim Greer, former chairman of the Florida Republican Party, is accusing his longtime associates of harboring “racist views,” and he’s apologized to President Obama for statements he made damning a speech to American students in 2009.

“In the year since I issued a prepared statement regarding President Obama speaking to the nation’s schoolchildren, I have learned a great deal about the party I so deeply loved and served,” he informed members of the media, in a prepared statement. “Unfortunately, I found that many within the GOP have racist views and I apologize to the president for my opposition to his speech last year and my efforts to placate the extremists who dominate our party today. My children and I look forward to the president’s speech.”

Republican Policy Ideas Are Out-of-Touch With Americans – On Tuesday SHRM/NJ/Pew Congressional Connection released a survey of public opinion on four main proposals that have — in however vague terms — been put forward by members of the GOP leadership. And the results indicate that the Republican Party faces a fairly obvious deficit in public trust on policy matters.

• According to the results, a proposal to extend all the Bush tax cuts (including those for the wealthy) was supported by just 29 percent of respondents.
• Calls to repeal the health care reform law passed by President Obama were favored by just 32 percent of the public.
• Creating vouchers for Medicare was supported by just 33 percent of the public.
• Amending the constitution to disallow automatic citizenship for children of illegal immigrants who were born in the United States, was favored by 46 percent of the public (49 percent opposed).

Corn Refiners Association Tries to Fool You with a Name Change – The Corn Refiners Association, reflecting on changing consumer sentiment around high fructose corn syrup, have decided to rebrand and rename their product, petitioning the FDA for a name change, calling high fructose corn syrup “corn sugar”.

A study from Princeton University that suggests that the sweetener formerly known as high-fructose corn syrup causes more significant weight gain than table sugar, and a UCLA study suggests that cancer cells feed off fructose at a higher rate than regular sugar.

Regards,

Jim