Here’s freshman Rep. Scott Tipton this morning on the KOA Morning News–talking about the debt ceiling negotiations underway, on which he is expected to give commentary in the home markets even though he’s not involved with anything consequential. And it shows.
But in this three minutes and twenty seconds of audio, Tipton does manage to lie pretty magnificently about President Barack Obama’s proposed “grand bargain” of cuts and revenue:
It’s going to be $1 trillion in cuts, $3 trillion in job-killing tax increases on the American people…
The truth, if you’re at all interested, is $800 billion in increased revenue proposed by Obama in the $4 trillion “grand bargain” with John Boehner. We can’t say where Tipton came up with his numbers, but they’re definitely nonsense. And it’s not like he simply got it backwards, because a 3:1 ratio on the side of cuts–that is, the correct figure–doesn’t help his case.
If that’s not enough for you, you can listen to Tipton defend the Medicare privatization budget he voted for as a (wait for it) “Path to Prosperity,” and how “the reality” of Moody’s possible downgrade of the United States’ AAA credit rating over the debt-limit impasse is “not so.”
But most will probably stop at the first “pants on fire.”
Scottie or the interviewers.
He’s a cretin.
(Sorry, lame segue. But interesting info starts…now:)
Tipton raised less than $150k in the most recent quarter, compared to Sal Pace’s $100,000 in only a month and Cory Gardner’s $300,000 haul.
And, Mr. No-Debt himself has let his campaign’s debt ceiling climb above $100,000! I hope he can find places to cut costs, because he’s clearly stretching his “No New Revenue” stance to his own campaign.
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1) Tipton is familiar with the proposal because it’s his job to understand things like the matters he’s potentially going to vote on, and he’s just blatantly lying.
or
2) Tipton is woefully incompetent and actually believes his statement to be factual.
So which is it, Representative? Are you a liar, or an idiot?
I think they can both be true in the case of Tipton, but this time I do have to go with lying. He’s on right-wing nut radio and has nothing to fear. Did they call him on it?
It’s an outrageous lie. Are we totally inured to being lied to by politicians?
FIVE CHIHUAHUAS!
Scott “Everything That Comes Out Of My Mouth Is Bullshit” Tipton wins the big prize!
Yippie-yi-yo-ki-yay!
I believe I will henceforth use the “chihuahua” rating system to compare the relative egregiousness and creativity of political lies.
Setting a standard award for complete bullshit, made of “whole cloth”(as my grandma used to say)at five chihuahuas seems a good place to start.
We are indeed fortunate to have Mr. Tipton to help us set the bar.
…It’s too obvious….
…was not meant to be a factual statement.
He meant ‘a whole lot’ and that particular number sounded big.