Democrat/media attack machine must come to grips with reality

Joseph Curl:

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... what the Democrats and supporting media will have to address at some point is what the nonpartisan Politifact watchdog group dubbed the “Lie of the Year” in 2011. “PolitiFact debunked the Medicare charge in nine separate fact-checks rated False or Pants on Fire, most often in attacks leveled against Republican House members,” the group said. 

Still, to Democrats, Mr. Ryan wants to choke elderly people to death with his bare hands (who can forget the Agenda Project ad that showed aPaul Ryan look-alike pushing an old woman in a wheelchair off a cliff). 

Yet few can argue with the facts that at some point — sooner rather than later — Congress and the president will have to make substantive changes to Medicare, in effect, “end Medicare as we know it.” Spending on the massive health program will hit $930 billion in 2020, up from $500 billion in 2009, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office projects. Reforms to Social Security, which former President George W. Bush took on in his second term, only to be thwarted by Democrats, won’t be far behind. 

Federal spending across the board is out of hand. This year alone, the government will spend $1 trillion more than it takes in (from already-too-high taxes). While both Democrats and Republicans are to blame for spiraling spending, eventually someone — anyone — will have to slash spending. There is no other way (note to Democrats: There are only 245,000 millionaires and billionaires — even fewer today than when Mr. Obama took office — so raising their taxes through the roof just won’t balance the budget).
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But they clearly don’t get it: The selection of Mr. Ryan focuses — like a laser — the 2012 election on the economy and the incumbent president’s clear failure to solve not only the current mess, but the overarching conditions — out-of-control spending — that underlie it. Mr. Ryan, perhaps the most articulate budget wonk in either party, will spend the next 85 days laying that out for American voters.

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Curl begins with a brief recitation of what Democrats and their media allies said shortly after Ryan was announced as the VP nominee.

The Democrats will continue to lie about Medicare and Social Security.   They just yell their lies louder when they are in trouble.  Expect the decibel level to rise over the next weeks.  These lies will be their main argument for staying in office.  What the Ryan nomination make harder for them is ignoring the problem.