1. From The Washington Post‘s Dylan Matthews: “The decision to close the plant was made in June 2008, when George W. Bush was president. Ryan says that Janesville was “about to” lose the factory at the time of the election, and Obama failed to prevent this. This is false, as Ryan knew in 2008 when he issued a statement bemoaning the plant’s impending closing.”

Matthews is the one with false and misleading facts here. GM did announce in June 2008 that the plant would “cease production of medium-duty trucks by the end of 2009, and of the Tahoe, Suburban and Yukon in 2010.” Both those dates place planned cessation of production solidly in Obama’s term. Work on medium-duty trucks did continue through April 2009. Work on the the Tahoe, Suburban and Yukon did stop in December 2008. As did work in many GM plants. But other GM plants have reopened. The problem for Obama is that he promised on three separate occasion to “retool” the Janesville factory and keep it open. This never happened. Obama promised. Obama failed. End of story.