Jesus's favorite Super PAC?

The religious right is so fond of referring to Jesus and his teachings and thoughts, and maybe they know more about it than we do. But when he said that the money lenders should be kicked out of the temple, we never got the sense that he then recommended that they be replaced by super PACs.

FRIDAY FAUXLOSOPHY

As said by the late Jack Bender; "In what would have been prescient advice to our president in his next debate, if a man like Gov. Romney misrepresents seven times, call him on it seven times. If he does it 17 times, call him on it 17 times. And on into the night...

50 SHADES OF VAGUE

According to the Tax Policy Center and virtually every other group of economic analysts that arent under the thumb of Rupert Murdoch and/or Fox News the tax cuts proposed by the Romney/Ryan team are roughly (and that's pretty rough) 5 trillion (5,000,000,000,000) dollars. They claim it is "revenue neutral" and will be made up by closing loopholes and deductions. But forgive the play on words, their solutions amount to "50 shades of vague". Because if you divide 5 trillion by 300 million (as in the number of Americans) it would amount to over $16,000 in "savings" from every man, woman, child and infant in America. Where to begin, well were they to cut the funding of PBS that would amount to $1.35/year for each of us, or to go from the ridiculous to the sublime, less that 0.3 cents/day. Sounds like we are not quite half way there.

Just the Facts, Thank you Ma’am

A sports talk show host advised people to do their civic duty and watch the debate with hopefully
the Yankees comfortably in front, which they were. He said turn on MSNBC and then FOX and you
would see two different universes. I would add to then turn on Brian Williams to find out what really
happened. On Brian Williams we had the best set of fact checkers. Particularly Andrea Mitchell, who
went forward with her “truth squad” and maybe the biggest single debate was the President’s claim and Mitt Romney’s strong denial that he did not promise a $5 trillion tax cut.
He would make the Bush tax cuts permanent.
He would cut all rates an additional 20%.
He would repeal the Alternative Minimum Tax.
And permanently repeal the Estate Tax.
The tax policy department currently headed by two former Bush addvisors said it would cost $4.8 trillion over 10 years. Not $5 trillion, but pretty darn close. And obviously all the deductions in the world, and Romney still won’t say what they are, won’t cover $4 trillion dollars. Unfortunately, Mr. Romney's level of truth came nowhere near his level of rhetoric.