American Heritage Dictionary:
brazen adj. "Marked by flagrant and insolent audacity"
Joan Walsh:
Paul Ryan gave a feisty anti-Obama speech that will have fact-checkers
working for days. His most brazen lie accused President Obama of
“raiding” Medicare by taking the exact same $716 billion that Ryan and
the House GOP notoriously voted to slash. It was stunning.
But that’s not all. He attacked Obama for failing to keep open a
Janesville GM plant that closed under Bush in 2008. He hit him for a
credit-rating downgrade that S&P essentially blamed on GOP
intransigence. He claimed that all taxpayers got from the 2009 stimulus
was “more debt,” when most got a tax cut (and the stimulus is known to
have saved between 1.4 and 3.3 million jobs). He derided the president
for walking away from the Simpson Bowles commission deficit-cutting
recommendations when Ryan himself, a commission member, voted against
those recommendations.
He blamed Obama for a deficit mostly created by programs he himself
voted for – from two wars, tax cuts, new Medicare benefits and TARP.
And of course, he riffed on the tired central lie of the GOP convention:
that the president said “government gets the credit” for small
businesses, not the business owners themselves.
Other than that, it was a great speech. MORE...
H/t to Marcia Kato.
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