Programming notes

*** Monday’s “Daily Rundown” line-up: Ryan reaction with former Obama White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, Gov. Bobby Jindal (R-LA), NBC’s “Meet the Press” moderator David Gregory, and House Budget Committee ranking member Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD)… Chuck’s interview with Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) on his time in the Senate and why it’s time to say goodbye… Live reports from the presidential campaign trail with NBC’s Kristen Welker and Peter Alexander… More 2012 analysis with The Washington Post’s Dan Balz, AP’S Liz Sidoti, Democratic pollster Celinda Lake, msnbc’s Robert Traynham and former Sen. John Sununu (R-NH).

*** Monday’s “MSNBC Live with Thomas Roberts” line-up: MSNBC’s Thomas Roberts talks with Obama National Campaign Press Secretary Ben LaBolt, RNC Communications Director Sean Spicer, MSNBC Host Ed Schultz, TheGrio.Com Managing Editor Joy-Ann Reid, Democratic Strategist Chris Kofinis and GOP strategist Hogan Gidley.

*** Monday’s “NOW with Alex Wagner” line-up: Alex Wagner’s guests include Politico’s Maggie Haberman, former RNC Chairman Michael Steele, the Boston Globe’s Scott Helman, New York Magazine’s Jonathan Chait, and the Washington Post’s Ezra Klein.

*** Monday’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports” line-up: NBC’s Andrea Mitchell interviews NBC’s Chuck Todd, the Washington Post’s Chris Cillizza, Gov. Bob McDonnell (R-VA), Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), Priorities USA Action co-founder Bill Burton, GOP Strategist John Feehery and Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren.

*** Monday’s “News Nation with Tamron Hall” line-up: Jose Diaz Balart, filling in for Tamron Hall, interviews Dem strategist Jimmy Williams, the Washington Post’s Anne Kornblut, former Bush Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez, and Newsweek/Daily Beast’s Zachary Karabell. 

Discuss this post

Mitt Romney,

1. Where are your TAX RETURNS?
2. Does your campaign know that Obamacare extends Medicare's solvency?
3. Does your campaign know Obamacare saves our elderly $Billions in prescription drug costs?
4. Does your campaign know that the Medicare savings do not affect beneficiaries in...any...way?

The Romney campaign's 'welfare reform lie' about President Obama, their 'military vote lie' about him, and the doctored audios such as "You didn't build that" lies about him, evidently didn't go far enough...

So this weekend, RNC Chair Reince Priebus got down to embellishing some lies about the ACA. And he scaled them up a few dirty notches, by saying the President has "blood on his hands" and is "destroying Medicare".

For the record, Paul Ryan (R-WI) is DEAD SET on turning Medicare into a dangerous, functionally useless 'depreciating' voucher program.

**The movie "Blood on Ryan's hands" is coming to Theaters near you.

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Reply#1 - Mon Aug 13, 2012 9:08 AM EDT

Above comment mysteriously transported itself here...

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#1.1 - Mon Aug 13, 2012 9:15 AM EDT

and, it's not a mystery that you're riding in it...

    #1.2 - Mon Aug 13, 2012 9:36 AM EDT

    It doesn't matter to the Willard/Paul ticket Backhouse. A good lie trumps the truth any day in their world. When you start your VP announcement off with a lie it's obvious what your platform is "LIE". Besides when you pick the queen of kill medicare as we know it and a member of the 9% do nothing congress, your only hope is to get enough voters to believe your lies.

    • 2 votes
    #1.3 - Mon Aug 13, 2012 10:15 AM EDT

    The Romney campaign, House freshmen, and a Tea Party that has tripled in size since 2010 do know that Obama raided Social Security for over $500 Billion for seed money for Obamacare, that that money has been distributed to his crony contributors.

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    #1.4 - Mon Aug 13, 2012 3:30 PM EDT
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    I watched Meet The Press on Sunday, and all you need to know about Romney's VP pick, from the point of view of the Democrats, was reflected in Rachel Maddow's beaming countenance all during the show.

    Even Chuck Todd, the closet Republican, said the Ryan pick moves Pennsylvania into the blue column. Looks like Romney is trying to make this a "base" election after all, energizing the right wingers, who up to now, had been uncomfortable with Romney.

    • 2 votes
    Reply#2 - Mon Aug 13, 2012 9:50 AM EDT
    ContemptMeDeleted

    At least the conservative republicans can hang their hats on wait till the Biden/Paul debates for now.

    Here's a quote from a retired Willard/Paul supporter. When ask what she thought about the Ryan kill medicare as we know it plan, her response was, it won't hurt me but you and my children better be worried about it. See the conservative republicans know it will hurt their children and grandchildren they just con't care. I've got news for you conservative republicans out there, there are vary few voters that are selfish and don't care about their families, Ya that's compassionate conservatism.

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    #2.2 - Mon Aug 13, 2012 10:28 AM EDT

    Paul Ryan strikes me as a zealot with a one track mind; all he thinks about is privatizing Medicare.

    It's very odd, that a man who paid his college tuition with his father's social security dealth benefits, thinks shredding the safety net for seniors is the highest calling a politican can have.

    I prefer my leaders to be a little more well-rounded, as in, able to address the needs of seniors, and not just looking out for the interests of the insurance industry.

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    #2.3 - Mon Aug 13, 2012 11:10 AM EDT
    ContemptMeDeleted

    Amy - Loved Rachel's comment on buying Margarita machines! She truly WAS beaming!

    Obama/Biden 2012

    • 2 votes
    #2.5 - Mon Aug 13, 2012 11:30 AM EDT

    Ryan's plan won't hurt his mother ContemptMe and Ryan has tax payer money to live on in his retirement with his government pension. I don't know if he just doesn't care or he doesn't realize what it will do to his children and grandchildren.

    • 2 votes
    #2.6 - Mon Aug 13, 2012 11:42 AM EDT

    Sanity, you reminded me to check the MTP transcript for what Rachel said:

    I talked to a Democratic fundraiser on Friday before we knew that the pick was going to happen Saturday morning. And I was teasing him about how much more money the Republicans are raising this year. And he said, "Yeah, basically our plan at this point is just to pray for Mitt Romney to pick Paul Ryan and then any money that we do have we're going to spend on a margarita machine."

    • 1 vote
    #2.7 - Mon Aug 13, 2012 12:00 PM EDT
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    So did Romney select Ryan for his general mindset and abilities or for his specific plan? Seems he could have gotten the plan without selecting him as a VP candidate if he wanted to.

      Reply#3 - Mon Aug 13, 2012 11:46 AM EDT

      It's the economy, STUPID OBAMANITES!

      • 3 votes
      Reply#4 - Mon Aug 13, 2012 12:03 PM EDT

      FINALLY the REAL BIRTH CERTIFICATE

      It appears this might be getting legs, we can only hope!

      CAN'T BELIEVE SNOPES VERIFIED THIS AS TRUE, SINCE THEY TEND TO

      DENY ANY OTHER FACTS ABOUT HIM.

      Obamas authentic birth certificate from Coast Memorial Hospital , in Mombasa , KENYA . Now the task is to get the courts to authenticate it and then kick Obama out of office, something they are loathe to do.

      Snopes say's it's true

      Here it is! The document we have been waiting for! Now if only Congress or the Supreme Court will act on this!

      Spread this around....if these documents are as authentic as they certainly seem to be, Obama is NOT qualified to be our President and he sits in the White House illegally!

      This is what Obama has spent almost $2M (so far) to hide.

      Here's a close-up of the top of the document where you can plainly read his name and his parent's names, etc....

      A British history buff was asked if he could find out who the colonial registrar was for Mombasa in 1961.

      After only a few minutes of research, he called back and said "Sir Edward F. Lavender Note the same name near the bottom of the photo above.

      Source(s): Kenya Dominion Record 4667 Australian library."

      And here is a close-up of the bottom of the document where you can read "Coast Providence�of Kenya " and the

      Official signature of the Deputy Registrar.....

      The above document is a "Certified Copy of Registration of Birth", but below is a copy of the actual Certificate of Birth...

      The real-deal legal kind of certificate.

      The Mombasa Registrar of Births has testified that Obama's birth certificate from Coast Province General Hospital in

      Mombasa is genuine. This copy was obtained by Lucas Smith through the help of a Kenyan Colonel who recently got it

      Directly from the Coast General Hospital in Mombasa , Kenya .. Here it is.....

      Note the footprint!!

      The local Muslim Imam in Mombasa named Barack with his Muslim middle name Hussein so his official name on this certificate is Barack Hussein Obama II.

      The grandmother of Barack Hussein Obama, Jr. Reveals the story of his birth in Mombasa , Kenya , a seaport, after his mother suffered labor pains while swimming at ocean beach in Mombasa ....

      "On August 4, 1961 Obama's mother, father and grandmother were attending a Muslim festival in Mombasa , Kenya ...

      Mother had been refused entry to airplanes due to her nine month pregnancy. It was a hot August day at the festival so the Obama s went to the beach to

      Cool off. While swimming in the ocean his mother experienced labor pains so was rushed to the Coast Provincial

      General Hospital , Mombasa , Kenya where Obama was born a few hours later at 7:21 PM on August 4, 1961(what a sad day for the USA !). Four days later his mother flew to Hawaii and registered his birth in Honolulu as a certificate of live birth which omitted the place and hospital of birth."

      Letter from Kitau in Mombasa , Kenya ........

      "I happen to be Kenyan. I was born 1 month before Obama at Mombasa medical center. I am a teacher here at the MM Shaw Primary School in Kenya . I compared my birth certificate to the one that has been put out by Taitz and mine is exactly the same. I even have the same registrar and format. The type is identical. I am by nature a skeptical person. I teach science here and challenge most things that cannot be proven. So I went to an official registrar today and pulled up the picture on the web. They magnified it and determined it to be authentic. There is even a plaque with Registrar Lavenders name on it as he was a

      Brit and was in charge of the Registrar office from 1959 until January of 1964. The reason the date on the certificate says republic of Kenya is that we were a republic when the "copy" of the original was ordered. I stress the word "copy". My copy also has republic of Kenya . So what you say is true about Kenya not being a republic at the time of Obama's birth, however it was a republic when the copy was ordered.

      The birth certificate is genuine. I assure you it will be authenticated by a forensic auditor. We are very proud Obama was born here. We have a shrine for him

      and there are many people who remember his birth here as he had a white mother. They are being interviewed now by one of your media outlets.

      Fortunately they even have pictures of his parents with him immediately after his birth at the Mombasa hospital with the hospital in the back ground.

      It will be a proud day for us when it is proven that he was born here and a Kenyan became the most powerful man in the world.

      I encourage anyone to come here and visit. I will be happy to take you and show you the pictures at the hospital myself as well as

      my document and many others that are identical to what Taitz posted. God Bless. Kitau"

      So, how much more proof do we need?

      Well, Here it is...{SJC}

      Lolo Soetoro, Stanley Ann Dunham Soetoro, baby Maya Soetoro, and 9 year old Barry Soetoro.

      This registration document, made available on Jan. 24, 2007, by the Fransiskus Assisi

      school inJakarta, Indonesia , shows the registration of Barack Obama under the name

      Barry Soetoro made by his step-father, Lolo Soetoro.

      Name: Barry Soetoro

      Religion: Islam

      Nationality: Indonesian

      How did this little INDONESIAN Muslim child - Barry Soetoro, (A.K.A. Barack Obama)

      get around the issue of nationality to become President of the United States of America ?

      PART 2:

      In a move certain to fuel the debate over Obama's qualifications for the presidency, the

      group "Americans for Freedom of Information" has released copies of President Obama's

      college transcripts from Occidental College .....

      The transcript indicates that Obama, under the name Barry Soetoro, received financial aid as a

      foreign student from Indonesia while an undergraduate at the school. The transcript was released

      by Occidental College in compliance with a court order in a suit brought by the group in the

      Superior Court of California .. The transcript shows that Obama (Soetoro) applied for financial

      aid and was awarded a fellowship for foreign students from the Fulbright Foundation Scholarship program.

      To qualify for this scholarship, a student must claim foreign citizenship.

      This document provides the smoking gun that many of Obama's detractors have been seeking -

      that he is NOT a natural-born citizen of the United States - necessary to be President of these

      United States. Along with the evidence that he was first born in Kenya , here we see that there is

      no record of him ever applying for US citizenship..

      Gary Kreep of the United States Justice Foundation has released the results of their investigation

      of Obama's campaign spending. This study estimates that Obama has spent upwards of $950,000

      in campaign funds in the past year with eleven law firms in 12 states for legal resources to block

      disclosure of any of his personal records.

      Mr. Kreep indicated that the investigation is still on-going but that the final report will be provided

      to the U.S. attorney general, Eric Holder. Mr. Holder has refused comment on this matter.

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      Reply#5 - Mon Aug 13, 2012 12:23 PM EDT

      nazarite

      Spread this around....if these documents are as authentic as they certainly seem to be, Obama is NOT qualified to be our President and he sits in the White House illegally!

      Holy crap! That's amazing! It must be a total media conspiracy (including Fox News) for not reporting on this amazing finding.

      You should get a Nobel Prize for this, and an Oscar, and a Grammy, and you should win the Nigerian Lottery, too.....!!!!! I also heard that Santa will have a very special present for you this year!

      • 1 vote
      #5.1 - Mon Aug 13, 2012 12:53 PM EDT
      Reply

      Original Chinese Proverb:

      Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day.

      Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.


      New Obama Proverb:
      Give a man a welfare check, a cell phone, cash for

      his clunker, food stamps, section 8 housing, Medicaid,

      100 weeks of unemployment checks, a 40-ounce malt

      liquor, needles, drugs, contraceptives, and designer

      Air Jordan shoes and he will vote Democrat for a lifetime.

      • 1 vote
      Reply#6 - Mon Aug 13, 2012 12:30 PM EDT

      As the Progressive Franklin
      Delano Roosevelt (FDR) accepted the 1932 Democratic nomination for president,
      he proclaimed, “Throughout the nation men and women, forgotten in the political
      philosophy of the Government, look to us here for guidance and for more
      equitable opportunity to share in the distribution of national wealth ... I
      pledge myself to a new deal for the American people. This is more than a
      political campaign. It is a call to arms.” FDR assumed power rivaling that of a
      dictator. A good crisis should never go to waste! Recently Progressives have
      used the same thinking to forward their radical agenda. This was a time when
      many indigent people were forced to yield liberty to the Federal Government. To
      insure the support of the electorate, the populace must be made dependent on
      government for sustenance. Once liberty and freedom are traded, surrendered or
      stolen, it is almost impossible to regain. This is why the Progressives want as
      many Americans possible to be dependant upon their government. The trade for
      this dependency is more government control and votes for the Progressives. Most
      tyrants in history came to power during a depression or political upheaval when
      desperate people were grasping for a political or economic savior. The “New
      Deal” put Socialism on the fast track, attempting to “level the playing field”
      which later became “redistribute the wealth of the country to its rightful
      owners”. This “New Deal” set into motion a progressive social disease that became
      the “Raw Deal” on America. This disease like leprosy started out as a minor
      infection that now has consumed man.
      What started in 1932 will end November 2012. Obama, we definitely can
      make it without you or government.

      OBAMA: Look, i-i-if you've been successful,
      you didn't get there on your own.

      FOLLOWERS: That's right!

      OBAMA: You didn't get there
      on your own. I'm always struck by people who think, "Well, it must be
      because I was just so smart!"

      FOLLOWERS: (laughing)

      OBAMA: There are a lot of
      smart people out there. "It must be because I worked harder than everybody
      else." Let me tell you something. There are a whole bunch of hardworkin'
      people out there!

      FOLLOWERS: (cheers and
      applause)

      OBAMA: If you were
      successful, somebody along the line gave you some help!

      FOLLOWERS: Yeaaaaaah!

      OBAMA: There was a great
      teacher somewhere in your life.

      FOLLOWERS: Yeaaaaaah!

      OBAMA: Somebody helped to
      create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to
      thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges! If you've got a business, you
      -- you didn't build that!

      FOLLOWERS: Yeaaaaaah!

      OBAMA: Somebody else made
      that happen. The Internet didn't get invented on its own. Government research
      created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the
      Internet.

      • 2 votes
      Reply#7 - Mon Aug 13, 2012 12:59 PM EDT

      An Absolute fact - Obama has
      spent more time on his knees with his arse in the air, aligned towards Mecca
      than every President both Past and Future. Obama is a Muslim, whether he
      actively practices his faith is another matter. He does not fit the definition
      of a Christian. He said "yeah I am a Christian, but I believe there are
      many paths to God" WRONG Answer! There is only one path, accepting Jesus
      Christ as ones LORD and Savior and publicly professing your faith. I have just
      done the second part. Liberals try to confuse others by lies and deceit about
      religion, socialism, and government
      being God.

      • 1 vote
      Reply#8 - Mon Aug 13, 2012 5:41 PM EDT
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