LIVE BLOG – GOP Debate at 5:00 PM PST in SC – 1/19

Excerpts from a Fact Check article on the debate:

Romney now has acknowledged the negative side of the ledger from his years with Bain Capital, but hardly laid out the full story. His claim to have created more than 100,000 jobs in the private sector as a venture capitalist remains unsupported.

Romney mentioned four successful investments in companies that now employ some 120,000 people, having grown since he was involved in them a decade or ago or longer. From that, he subtracted the number of jobs that he said are known to have been lost at certain other companies.

What’s missing is anything close to a complete list of winners and losers — and the bottom line on jobs. Bain under Romney invested in scores of private companies that don’t have the obligation of big publicly traded corporations to disclose finances. Romney acknowledged that he was using current employment figures for the four companies, not the number of jobs they had when he left Bain Capital, yet took credit for them in his analysis.

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PAUL: “I had the privilege of practicing medicine in the early `60s, before we had any government (health care). It worked rather well, and there was nobody on the street suffering with no medical care. But Medicare and Medicaid came in and it just expanded.”

THE FACTS: Before Medicare was created in the mid-1960s, only about half of the elderly had private insurance for hospital care, and they were facing rising costs for those policies on their fixed incomes. Medicare was hugely contentious at the time, seen by many doctors as a socialist takeover, but few argued that the status quo could be maintained.

A Health, Education and Welfare Department report to Congress in 1959, during the Republican administration of Dwight Eisenhower, took no position on what the federal government should do but stated “a larger proportion of the aged than of other persons must turn to public assistance for payment of their medical bills or rely on `free’ care from hospitals and physicians.”

Paul advocates a return to an era when doctors would treat the needy for free. But even in the old days, charity came with a cost. Research from the pre-Medicare era shows that the cost of free care was transferred to paying customers and the insurance industry.

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http://old.news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20120120/ap_on_el_pr/us_gop_debate_fact_check

Now John King is being a “stuttering prick” trying to justify his asking the ex-wife question at the beginning to Newt and all the hacks at CNN are assisting. What losers.

Maybe we should put CNN and The GOP in Thunderdome and let them demolish each other.

I say, “Go Newt, you disgusting human being, beat Romney in SC and you’re both doomed.”

Two highlights, Newt’s attack on King and Mitt’s “Maybe” to following his father’s example on releasing tax returns.

Who’s staying on CNN and who’s going to MSNBC?