July 15, 2011 03:16 AM UTC

Count on Tipton to Get It Wrong

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• by: Colorado Pols

Here’s freshman Rep. Scott Tipton this morning on the KOA Morning News–talking about the debt ceiling negotiations underway, on which he is expected to give commentary in the home markets even though he’s not involved with anything consequential. And it shows.

But in this three minutes and twenty seconds of audio, Tipton does manage to lie pretty magnificently about President Barack Obama’s proposed “grand bargain” of cuts and revenue:

It’s going to be $1 trillion in cuts, $3 trillion in job-killing tax increases on the American people…

The truth, if you’re at all interested, is $800 billion in increased revenue proposed by Obama in the $4 trillion “grand bargain” with John Boehner. We can’t say where Tipton came up with his numbers, but they’re definitely nonsense. And it’s not like he simply got it backwards, because a 3:1 ratio on the side of cuts–that is, the correct figure–doesn’t help his case.

If that’s not enough for you, you can listen to Tipton defend the Medicare privatization budget he voted for as a (wait for it) “Path to Prosperity,” and how “the reality” of Moody’s possible downgrade of the United States’ AAA credit rating over the debt-limit impasse is “not so.”

But most will probably stop at the first “pants on fire.”