Tag Archives: Republicans

Boustany’s Response

Posted on September 10, 2009

Barack Obama wasn’t the only person misstating health care facts during prime time on Sept. 9. Louisiana Rep. Charles Boustany delivered the Republican response to Obama’s speech. We found a couple of factual flaws. Bureaucracies vs. Bureaucrats Boustany exaggerated when he stated that the Democrats’ bill "created 53 new bureaucracies." …
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100 Days of Spin

Posted on April 29, 2009

After 100 days in office, we find President Obama is sticking to the facts – mostly. Nevertheless, we find that the president has occasionally made claims that put him and his policies in a better light than the facts warrant. He has claimed that private economists agreed with the forecast in …
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Specter’s Statistic on the Switch

Posted on April 29, 2009

Sen. Arlen Specter’s remarks about changing political parties contained one statement that tripped our fact-checking radar: "Last year, more than 200,000 Republicans in Pennsylvania changed their registration to become Democrats." Two hundred thousand people in one state changing their political colors from red to blue? Could it be true? Unfortunately, …
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Hot Air on “This Week”

Posted on April 21, 2009

House Republican Minority Leader John Boehner was a guest on ABC’s "This Week with George Stephanopoulos" on Sunday, and he made a remark that could use some clarification and correction. A conversation about climate change included the following exchange: Stephanopoulos: What is the Republican plan to deal with carbon emissions, …
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GOP Stimulus Myths

Posted on February 24, 2009

Do some of the Republican claims you’ve heard about the stimulus bill sound too awful to be true? We find a few that are wildly exaggerated or downright false. It’s not true that the bill contains spending for “golf carts.” It has $300 million to buy fuel-efficient vehicles, some …
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Home Foreclosures and Voting

Posted on September 29, 2008 , Updated on October 28, 2008

Q: Are the Republicans really trying to keep people from voting whose homes are in foreclosure? A: Republicans deny they have any such plans, and a voting rights group says those with homes in foreclosure can’t be barred from the polls anyway.

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What is Triangulation?

Posted on April 3, 2008

Q: What is triangulation? A:  In simple terms, it’s Democrats advocating some Republican positions or Republicans advocating some Democratic positions.

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Why Only Two Major Parties?

Posted on January 9, 2008

Q: Why are there only two major parties in the U.S.? A: The winner-take-all system in the U.S. favors two stable parties.

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