More Lies than You Can Shake a Stick At

The single most annoying thing about the Dick Doctor who has been getting a lot of air time on Fixxed News because he refuses to treat anyone who voted for Obama is the lies he has been telling about the health care bill. He claims the bill will curtail Hospice Care, which it will not. When called on this claim by a CNN Reporter (Hey, maybe CNN will find its market among people who like reporters who actually care about content and call guests out on their bullshit?). Dr. DICKman looked like a deer in the headlights. "You mean I am full of shit?" He thought to himself secretly. And then he said "I get my information where everyone else gets it, on the internet." So maybe this guy is just a fool and his lies are just stupidity… like he thought he could get real information from Glenn Beckman's blog. The U.S. Clammer of Commerce has no such excuse for the amazing lie they are telling in their advertisement about consumer protection reform. In a TV advertisement, the Clammer makes the claim that establishing an independent Consumer Financial Protection Agency is anti small business. The Chamber says that the CFPA would make it harder for small businesses to get credit. This is not just any lie, but a remarkably clumsy lie given the obvious fact that it is consumer credit which is protected by the proposed legislation, not business credit. Business credit, not to state the obvious, is not protected by consumer protection laws. Businesses are presumed to take their own risks in the market place and not to need any special rules. These are facts that should be well known to the Clammer, which owns a fistful of lawyers on K Street. If I gave the Clammer some benefit of doubt, I could assume what they are really saying is that many small businesses finance themselves on their personal credit without the bank knowing that the credit is being used for business purposes, and thus are damaged. At that, I would still have to conclude that the Clammer is lying deliberately. The CFPA would not prohibit making credit available or slow it up in any way. All it does is place enforcement for consumer laws in the hands of one agency that has an obligation to enforce the laws. It does not make any significant changes in the laws themselves. Thus, the Clammer is claiming that small business is being harmed because laws intended to protect consumers are finally going to be enforced. Like, maybe we should have laws that we specifically do not enforce?