Category: Lies

Despite Obama’s Repeated Claims That Enacting $787-Billion Stimulus Was Urgent, 78 Percent of Money Remained Unspent by End of Fiscal 2009 Says Federal Auditing Agency

From CNSNews.com: After his election last November and until the $787-billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act was passed in February, President Barack Obama repeatedly insisted that it was urgent for Congress to enact his economic “recovery” bill immediately. Yet, by the end of fiscal 2009 fully 78 percent of the federal spending authorized by that bill [...]

‘The Stimulus Jobs Inflation Map’

From Michelle Malkin: A few weeks ago, I said we needed a new metric for all the bogus jobs claimed by the Obama White House. I called it the “Stimulus Jobs Inflation Index.” The Examiner does even better — creating a handy, interactive Stimulus Jobs Inflation Map. More than ten percent of the jobs the [...]

Obama’s Failed Stimulus in Pictures: 10.2% Unemployment

From The Heritage Foundation: When President Barack Obama was pitching his $787 billion economic stimulus package, the White House produced a report [2] claiming their plan would keep unemployment under a peak of 8%. Reality has not been kind to President Obama’s promises. On November 6, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released their Employment Situation Summary [...]

Obama Told House Democrat He Wasn’t Talking about House Health Bill When He Told Congress ‘Our Plan’ Doesn’t Fund Abortion

From CNSNews.com: Rep. Bart Stupak (D.-Mich.) told CNSNews.com that President Barack Obama told him in a telephone conversation that when he said in his Sept. 9 speech to a joint session of Congress that “under our plan no federal dollars will be used to fund abortions” he was not talking about the actual bill drafted [...]

3 Senators & Obama Secretly Write Health Bill

From NewsMax.com: When he was a presidential candidate, Barack Obama promised to make negotiations over healthcare reform an open and transparent process. Now that he’s president, the reality is that most of the high-stakes work is being conducted by just three senators behind closed doors. According to the Washington Post, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, [...]

Baucus Plan Eviscerates Obama’s Tax Promise

From The Heritage Foundation: From the September 20th ABC News This Week interview between George Stephanopolous and President Barack Obama: STEPHANOPOULOS: Probably the most definitive promise you made in the campaign is that no one in the middle class would get a tax increase on your watch. OBAMA: Right. STEPHANOPOULOS: Yet this week, Senator Rockefeller [...]

Stimulus Is Destroying, Not Creating Jobs

From The Heritage Foundation: Even as National Economic Council Director Lawrence Summers says the stimulus is working he also warned that he expects unemployment to remain unacceptably high for years to come. Unfortunately, Summers is half right: unemployment will probably stay high, but because of – not in spite of – the stimulus bill. The [...]

Liberals Admit Obamacare is Trojan Horse to Goverment-Run Care

At The Heritage Foundation, I found this “video of liberal politicians and intellectuals all admitting that, despite his claims otherwise, President Barack Obama’s public option is designed for the sole purpose of being a Trojan Horse for government-run single payer health care…So the next time an Obamacare supporter tries to tell you that the public [...]

Obama Losing On Healthcare, Getting Desperate

From The Heritage Foundation: Will Entire Obama Agenda Crumble In August? Poll after poll is demonstrating that the Americans turning out at townhalls across the country are making President Barack Obama’s health care plan less and less popular. But health care is not the only Obama agenda item that is dying a slow death. Bloomberg [...]

The Obama Broken Promise of a Middle-Class Tax Hike is Coming

From The Heritage Foundation: Campaigning just last year, then-candidate Barack Obama repeatedly promised audiences at campaign stops across the country: “If you’re a family that’s making $250,000 a year or less, you will see no increase in your taxes. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your personal gains tax, not any of [...]

Unemployment Still Skyrockets Higher Than Obama Said It Would With Stimulus

From Michelle Malkin: The Obama-conomy: “It’s worse than you think” Of course, it’s all Bush’s fault: The U.S. economy is not only shedding jobs at a record rate; it is shedding more jobs than it is supposed to. It’s bad enough that the unemployment rate has doubled in only a year and a half and [...]

Obama vs. Obama: Stimulus Would Help “Immediately” But Not In Four Months

From RightWingNews.com: President Obama Promised Help “Immediately” How immediate is immediately? Four months later…… AJ Strata: And what little stimulus money that has been spent (more on that at the end) has gone to keeping government bureaucrats in their cozy little jobs doing much of nothing. The private sector (where the vast majority of us [...]

Obamacare: You Will Lose Your Current Insurance. Period. End of Story.

From The Heritage Foundation: This weekend President Obama dedicated his weekly address to defending Congress’s plans for an overhaul of the nation’s health care system. He argued, “Once you’ve seen enough ads and heard enough people yelling on TV you might begin to wonder whether there’s a grain of truth to what they are saying.” [...]

Obama’s Deception About “Saved Jobs,” Impossible to Measure

From The Wall Street Journal: The Media Fall for Phony ‘Jobs’ Claims The Obama Numbers Are Pure Fiction. By William McGurn Tony Fratto is envious. Mr. Fratto was a colleague of mine in the Bush administration, and as a senior member of the White House communications shop, he knows just how difficult it can be [...]

More Obama Lies: Emanuel Pushed Blagojevich to Appoint Obama Loyalists

Still don’t think that Obama is lying about anything? Concerning this whole Blagojevich scandal, Obama first said that he had “no contact with the governor or his office,” then soon afterward said that he had no “direct contact” only to later say that he is “absolutely certain” that he nor his team had any “inappropriate [...]

Just a taste of what we can expect for the next four years

From NewsMax.com: Illinois Scandal’s Weight Grows on Obama December 17, 2008 CHICAGO – The scandal surrounding the arrest of the corruption-tainted governor of Illinois continued to weigh on president-elect Barack Obama Tuesday as he faced questions over the degree of contact his staff had with Rod Blagojevich. Obama has said he is “absolutely certain” that [...]

Obama Blatantly Lies to America About his Reverend Jeremiah Wright