The Republicans are lying their asses off again. This time it’s about student loans.

You see, most students use federal loans to pay for their education. The interest rate on those loans are set to double on July 1, which pretty much sucks for low- and middle-income students who will be buried under a mountain of debt after they graduate. President Obama has been taking his message about maintaining the current 3.4 % interest rates on the federal student loans to the streets, making stops in North Carolina, Colorado, and Iowa.

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President Obama feels broke-ass students’ pain:

The Republicans — not so much:

FOXX: I went through school, I worked my way through, it took me seven years, I never borrowed a dime of money. He borrowed a little bit because we both were totally on our own when we went to college, totally. […] I have very little tolerance for people who tell me that they graduate with $200,000 of debt or even $80,000 of debt because there’s no reason for that. We live in an opportunity society and people are forgetting that. I remind folks all the time that the Declaration of Independence says “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” You don’t have it dumped in your lap.

What Foxx said is more or less the Republican party line. I say “less,” because one Mittens Archibald Romney decided that he agrees with President Obama on this issue, which is no surprise considering that a poll this week shows Obama kicking Mittbot’s ass with young voters. (President Obama has a seventeen-point lead according to the Harvard Something Or Other poll.)

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Presumably to stop the bleeding, Romney told a group of supporters in Pennsylvania earlier this week that he “supports extending the temporary relief on interest rates for students.” Oops. That puts him directly at odds with not only his new BFF Paul Ryan of the Serious Budget Ryans, but also errrybody else in the Republican party that voted for Paul Ryan of the Serious Budget Ryan’s Serious Budget.

Republicans are panicking, natch, and trying to figure out a way to woo all the young whippersnappers to the Romney camp without letting the young whippersnappers know how badly the Republicans are trying to screw them.

Enter Senator Roy Blunt (R-MOron) of the ‘Employers Can Deny Preventive Healthcare to Women If They Feel Like It’ Blunts with a large load of bullshit. Senator Blunt claims that the reason that interest rates are going up in July is because that nasty job-killin’, dog-eatin’ Obahhhhmacare bill stole money from students to pay for healthcare for people who aren’t students.

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LIE.

In the reality-based world, interest rates were lowered in 2007 by cutting out the go-between in the loan process. Instead of the government giving the money to a bank which would give the money to students, the government gives the money directly to students. It’s called “direct lending.” The government used the money it saved through its new direct loans program to lower the rates. Easy Peasy. The rate reduction has nothing to do with the damn healthcare bill. Blunt isn’t simply lying here; he’s fucking lying.

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Capiche?

Let’s move on.

Enter John Boehner with a forty oz. of Derp in a failed attempt to woo young voters. This afternoon, Orange Julius held a press conference and stated that House Republicans will vote on Friday to maintain the student loan interest rate at current levels, but that the Republicans will pay for it using money from one of the “slush funds in the president’s healthcare law.”

What slush fund, you ask? Well, here’s where the GOP’s War on the Poor interesects with the GOP’s War on Women. The “slush fund” refers to a $750 million fund set up under the PPACA for public health preventive services. And what do you think such preventive services are? Services primarily used by women, of course: