More, more, and still more Republican mendacity

My cup of outrage runneth over. 

Outrage that Romney's lying seems to have no consequences.   Fact-checkers and impartial policy analysts can show that he has lied, and he just doubles down and keeps saying it.  It's an insult to the intelligence of the American people -- and it (almost) works.   There is some indication that it is beginning to backfire.

But, wait, there's another whopper coming down the pike.   The New York Times has reported that, back in September, the Republican leadership put pressure on the Congressional Research Service -- supposedly a non-partisan, official service to evaluate potential policies and bills under consideration -- not to release a report of their study showing that cutting the marginal tax rates for the wealthiest Americans has no effect on economic growth or job creation.

This refutes the Republican tax mantra that they have been peddling for decades, against any evidence to the contrary.

Now, with an authoritative study going over facts from the last 65 years, this sounds like the definitive answer about tax cuts and job creation.  In addition, what they found was that cutting taxes for the wealthiest increased the income gap.

Somehow, and this is a puzzle to me since the Democrats control the Senate, Senate Republicans persuaded the CRS not to release the report.   In other words, they suppressed the facts.

And what I want to know -- now here's a subject for Darrell Issa's House Oversight and Government Reform Committee to investigate -- is how the Republican leaders were able to intimidate the CRS into suppressing the report.

Ralph