One thing is as certain as death and taxes, GOP shills will call Joe Biden a liar on Friday morning.
If you watch the Sunday morning talk shows, you've seen the previews to the GOP smears that are certain swamp the airwaves on Friday morning.
Consider Jack Abramoff's partner in crime, Ralph Reed. David Gregory saw no reason to ask Reed about any of his crooked dealings. He only wanted astute political insights to complement those of Katy Kay, Chuck Todd, and Ed Rendell on his September 30 Meet The Press panel. Reed delivered. He said:
I think President Obama has, and I-- I want to be charitable here, has a-- a casual relationship with the truth. He’s very eloquent. He’s extremely articulate. He is very bright. Anybody who thinks otherwise, who thinks that when you untether him from the teleprompter that he didn’t bring his A-game is underestimating him. But here is the problem. His words are very eloquent, very flowery, very-- tickle your ears. But none of it is true.
Chris Christie amplified the same message the same morning on This Week:
STEPHANOPOULOS: If you were on the stage Wednesday, how would you respond to that?
CHRISTIE: Stop lying, Mr. President.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Lying?
CHRISTIE: Yeah. That's what I'd say.
STEPHANOPOULOS: What's the lie there?
CHRISTIE: That he -- Governor Romney is not talking about more tax cuts for the wealthy. In fact, what he said is that the wealthy will pay just as much under a Romney administration as they pay today.
STEPHANOPOULOS: But their tax rate will go down into the 20s.
CHRISTIE: Right. But their tax rate will go down, but they will lose deductions and other loopholes that will have them paying the same. That's what Governor Romney's plan is.
Of course, Romney never actually put down numbers in writing that would in any way refute the President. And Stephanopoulos had no interest in asking Christie to explain
his lies about the the Hudson River tunnel project that he canceled, or about his institutionalized graft...
The following Sunday, Mary Matalin, who took an active role in defaming Valerie Plame, lobbed a defamatory smear against Nobel Prise Winner Paul Krugman, sitting across the table:
"You have lied about every position and every particular of the Ryan plan on Medicare from the efficiency of Medicare administration to calling it a voucher plan..."
Needless to say, the woman has made a career of emulating Goebbels. Not that her shrill dishonesty in any way offended Stephanopoulos.
And of course, there is old Jack Welch, who smeared Obama, denied that he did it, offered zero evidence to support his crackpot allegation, and then extended the bogus narrative in today's Wall Street Journal.
Let's not forget how this rightwing stunt began. During Obama's address to a joint session of Congress on September 9, 2009 we saw an early manifestation of a GOP retort to being called out on their lies:
Obama: The claim made not just by radio and cable talk show hosts, but by prominent politicians, that we plan to set up panels of bureaucrats with the power to kill off senior citizens. Now, such a charge would be laughable if it weren't so cynical and irresponsible. It is a lie, plain and simple. (Applause.)
There are also those who claim that our reform efforts would insure illegal immigrants. This, too, is false. The reforms -- the reforms I'm proposing would not apply to those who are here illegally.
Rep. Joe Wilson: You lie!
Is there really any doubt what will happen after Biden confronts the GOP's biggest robo-liar, Paul Ryan?