A refusal to acqueisce to tyranny does not constitute lying

I've seen this set of charges several places already this morning.  The linked article cites Dave Weigel's trotting-out of them at Slate.  (There's even an AP / Yahoo story about it.) I happened to first see them at Salon under the byline of the putrid Joan Walsh.  Alas, Avik Roy at Forbes exposes this attempt to make Paul Ryan's exposure of the MEC's agenda of planned decline for what it is.