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FACT CHECK: Obama promised and failed to keep Janesville GM plant open
Washington Examiner ^ | August 30, 2012 | Conn Carroll

Posted on 08/30/2012 8:20:25 AM PDT by Qbert

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1 posted on 08/30/2012 8:20:28 AM PDT by Qbert
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Last night, just for fun, I watched msnbc following Ryan's speech to hear what the moonbats there had to say.

The vile and loathsome racist Rev. Al called Ryan a liar over the Janesville Plant closing.

It's good to see his record of 100% inaccuracy still stands.

2 posted on 08/30/2012 8:24:42 AM PDT by Pietro
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If enough people see it.


3 posted on 08/30/2012 8:25:19 AM PDT by MestaMachine (obama kills)
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Ryan was right. We all knew he wouldn’t get up and say an blatant lie about something like a GM plant closing. I meant a date is something easily checked.


4 posted on 08/30/2012 8:25:30 AM PDT by snarkytart
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Mitt Romney definitely needs to read this timeline in his speech tonight, thus exposing the lying media to the nation. He should not allow these liars to trash the excellent reputation of Paul Ryan though the falsehoods they are spewing all over the airwaves this morning. This might open the eyes of John Q Voter, who has only the networks and the liberal newspapers to inform him.


5 posted on 08/30/2012 8:25:49 AM PDT by txrefugee
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This ought to make a very effective ad in WI.

The liberal media is lying about this though. They’ll just repeat whatever lie the Obama Administration tells them to tell.


6 posted on 08/30/2012 8:26:29 AM PDT by KansasGirl ("If you have a business, you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen."--B. Hussein Obama)
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Not to worry, zero will parse a few words, split a few hairs and the media will come to his rescue as they always do, and all of asudden ‘IT’S BUSH’S FAULT” just like everything else.

Mark my words, it’ll happen.

This guy does not take responsibility for ANYTHING, ever.


7 posted on 08/30/2012 8:28:20 AM PDT by V_TWIN (obama=where there's smoke, there's mirrors)
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Some lib dudette from Fox called Ryan a liar for exactly the same reason. They should all swallow their tongues and gag themselves as a matter of general principle.


8 posted on 08/30/2012 8:29:51 AM PDT by MestaMachine (obama kills)
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To: snarkytart

Exactly right, but living within a long rock-thrown of Janesville I knew he was right. Still, the RNC needs to trot this example and others out loud and proud to show what a liar Obama and the RATS are.


9 posted on 08/30/2012 8:32:11 AM PDT by bigbob
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To: musicman

BFLR


10 posted on 08/30/2012 8:32:48 AM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: Qbert; holdonnow; All

Someone needs to send this to Levin, Rush, Hannity, Greta and the RNC NOW!!!!!!!


11 posted on 08/30/2012 8:34:26 AM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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"Ryan was right. We all knew he wouldn’t get up and say an blatant lie about something like a GM plant closing. I meant a date is something easily checked."

Yep. The left is shocked that somebody would actually have the audacity to point this out, and they are coming undone.

12 posted on 08/30/2012 8:34:49 AM PDT by Qbert ("The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry" - William F. Buckley, Jr.)
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http://www.jsonline.com/business/130171578.html

local paper article from last year. Shut down date of 2009 listed in 3rd paragraph


13 posted on 08/30/2012 8:34:55 AM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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This seems like a wobbly plank for conservatives to walk.

Maybe the plant NEEDS to be CLOSED?!

If their only plan is to retool it to make Volts (or SUVs) that aren’t selling right now, then keep it closed.

OTOH, if Romney/Ryan are going to roll back CAFE and enable new domestic oil production to make SUVs and Pickups profitable and popular again, then it could be years before that impacts the plant and its workers.

IOW, Ryan’s pitch reinforces the anti-conservative idea that the POTUS can just wave a wand and keep jobs going.

It shouldn’t work that way. The POTUS should get government out of the way, and there will be pain for workers until the market catches up.


14 posted on 08/30/2012 8:37:02 AM PDT by sam_paine (X .................................)
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I really don’t get it. Who cares when it closed or if it “idled.”

Politicians should have no direct power or direct influence whatsoever on the damn business decision as to whether it stays open or not.

They may influence indirectly by economic policies like CAFE and energy policy, but it’s no better for Ryan to waltz in and demand the plant stay open to make things the market doesn’t want.....


15 posted on 08/30/2012 8:41:52 AM PDT by sam_paine (X .................................)
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Ryan was making the point that the bailout didn’t even work. The point was that Obama tried to convince people to support it by saying it would save jobs, which it didn’t. He also said that the money for the bailout was borrowed, spent and wasted. Maybe real capitalism would have saved those jobs, maybe not, but Obama’s plan was a big fail.


16 posted on 08/30/2012 8:50:25 AM PDT by God pays good
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you suppose we can find a laid-off worker there willing to go on camera and claim Obama killed his wife?


17 posted on 08/30/2012 8:52:58 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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It closed before he was in office. The key is he told them it would be retooled and it never was.


18 posted on 08/30/2012 8:53:42 AM PDT by wiggen (The teacher card. When the racism card just won't work.)
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To: musicman

Someone needs to send this to Levin, Rush, Hannity, Greta and the RNC NOW!!!!!!!


Add in the Super Pacs.

Using that famous line in the movie “ Gladiator” ...... Unleash Hell


19 posted on 08/30/2012 9:04:16 AM PDT by patriotspride
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5. In April 2009, four months after Obama was inaugurated, GM idled production of medium-duty trucks.


20 posted on 08/30/2012 9:07:22 AM PDT by Balding_Eagle (Liberals, at their core, are aggressive & dangerous to everyone around them,)
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