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Tag Archives: Barack Obama
Premium Nonsense On Medicare
Posted on April 1, 2011 , Updated on July 11, 2012
Q: Will the new health care law raise Medicare’s basic monthly premium to $247 in 2014, as a viral message claims? A: No, Medicare officials project the basic premium will be less than half that. But the law will eventually cause 14 percent of seniors with incomes over $85,000 a …
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Tagged Barack Obama, chain e-mail, health care, health care reform, medicare
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GOP Exaggerations in Iowa
Posted on March 31, 2011
Several Republicans testing the presidential waters in Iowa made more than a few statements that we found all wet. Among the dubious claims …
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Tagged Barack Obama, Haley Barbour, Michele Bachmann, Nancy Pelosi, oil drilling, Steve King
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Obama on War, Then and Now
Posted on March 29, 2011
President Barack Obama stuck to the facts in his speech on Libya, but as others have pointed out, he has flip-flopped on the fundamental question of whether he needed congressional approval for military intervention. Also, Obama sought in his address to minimize the military costs to the United States by …
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Is Obama to Blame for $4 Gasoline?
Posted on March 24, 2011
Conflicting, false and misleading statements on oil production and gasoline prices have become the currency of politicians lately, as oil tops $100 per barrel and gasoline hovers near $4 per gallon. Among some of the claims that got our attention …
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Tagged Barack Obama, gas prices, Haley Barbour, John Boehner, Mitch McConnell, moratorium, oil drilling, oil imports, Sarah Palin
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Barbour Inflates Obama’s Job Losses
Posted on March 15, 2011
Haley Barbour grossly exaggerated the nation’s job losses under President Barack Obama in a March 14 speech in Chicago. Speaking to the Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce, the Republican governor of Mississippi urged his audience to look at the Obama administration’s record "in the last two years" on spending and job …
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No Secret: Bachmann Gets It Wrong
Posted on March 8, 2011
Rep. Michele Bachmann's claim that Democrats "secretly" hid $105 billion in health care spending is way off base. It's true that the new health care law contains many billions in future spending, but there was no secret about that. The Minnesota Republican told "Meet the Press" host David Gregory that "secretly, …
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Tagged Barack Obama, health care law, Michele Bachmann, Thad Cochran
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Dems’ ‘Halfway’ Hustle
Posted on March 7, 2011
Democrats claim their $10.5 billion in proposed cuts are "halfway" to the GOP’s $61 billion. We give that arithmetic an "F." President Barack Obama claimed during his March 5 radio address that "my administration has already put forward specific cuts that meet congressional Republicans halfway." And White House Chief of …
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Tagged Barack Obama, budget, Nancy Pelosi, william daley
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Democrats Deny Social Security’s Red Ink
Posted on February 25, 2011
Some senior Democrats are claiming that Social Security does not contribute “one penny” to the federal deficit. That’s not true. The fact is, the federal government had to borrow $37 billion last year to finance Social Security, and will need to borrow more this year.
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Tagged Barack Obama, Chuck Schumer, deficit, Dick Durbin, Harry Reid, Social Security
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Sorry Statistics
Posted on February 25, 2011
Q: Do statistics in a chain e-mail give an accurate "report card" of President Obama’s first two years? A: Not exactly. The author made many minor mistakes and some major omissions in describing the terrible economic conditions he attributes to the president.
Obama Bungles Budget Line
Posted on February 23, 2011
President Barack Obama messed up one of his favorite talking points about his 2012 budget proposal at a small business forum in Cleveland. The president claimed that "I’ve designed a budget that freezes spending for five years and will help reduce the deficit by $400 billion over the next decade …
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Tagged Barack Obama, budget, Dwight Eisenhower, non-security discretionary spending
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