My 70th column for The Daily Banter expands upon something Ashby posted yesterday: Romney's next huge whopper lie about the president and welfare reform.
To recap: over the weekend, Romney wrote on The Facebook that President Obama was trying to disenfranchise military voters in Ohio when, in fact, the president was actually trying to extend weekend early voting to all Ohio voters including members of the military. Romney flagrantly lied about the Justice Department's lawsuit to overturn the Ohio Republican law that ended weekend voting.
No sooner could everyone scramble to debunk this nonsense, but a new Romney commercial was released on Tuesday that contained a grotesquely misleading statement. The video falsely claims the president tried to "gut" President Clinton's welfare reform legislation from 1996.
Big-time lie. Continue reading here...