Does anyone remember PolitiFact's 2011 Lie of the Year?
Back last December when they ignored the input from their readers and chose instead to christen the following as the Lie of the Year:
2011 Lie of the Year: Republicans Voted to End Medicare
At issue was the Republican vote for the Paul Ryan budget proposal -- and PolitiFact contorted six ways to Sunday to make it out as a Pants on Fire.
But now -- as Brian Beutler points out to devastating effect on TPM this afternoon -- one of the GOP's own is now on video giving the lie to the lie (as it were).
As JamieG from MD and I reported last Friday, GOP Wisconsin Senate candidate Tommy Thompson was caught last June telling a Tea Party audience that he was just the guy to "do away with Medicaid and Medicare." H/t brinmat for the re-uploaded, properly-synched video that as of this writing is climbing past 22,000 hits:
The most damning aspect of Thompson's brag is his subsequent description that what he's actually talking about is the GOP/Ryan plan:
change Medicare and Medicaid like I did welfare -- and who better than me, who's already finished one of the entitlement programs, to come up with programs to do away with Medicaid and Medicare? Let's block-grant what the state has, and allow the states to determine what's going to go into Medicaid. And Medicare, let's wait until everyone that's right now under 55 reaches 55 by age [sic] 2020, and give them a choice whether they want to purchase health insurance with a subsidy from the federal government, or stay on Medicare. I'm here to tell you, when you look at the situation nobody's going to accept it, because Medicare's going broke by the year 2022.More beyond the cheddar swirl!
