January 27, 2012 11:01 am ET filed under Blog
The 5.6 Million Reasons Behind GOP Senators' Letter To Obama
March 14, 2011 9:57 am ET filed under Blog
Fact Checking The Sunday Shows - March 13, 2011
March 14, 2011 9:50 am ET filed under Fact Check
Fact Checking The Sunday Shows - March 13, 2011
Natural disasters nearly crowded out political chatter on the Sunday talk shows, but conservative guests dutifully plugged talking points into the spaces between stories about leaking reactors and coastal devastation in Japan. Sens. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Jon Kyl (R-AZ) are still clinging to the notion that the Recovery Act didn't lead to the current economy recovery, and each man blamed President Obama for the spike in gas prices that's followed recent political turmoil in the Middle East. McConnell also claimed the government's done nothing to address entitlement costs, although the Affordable Care Act took a number of steps to reign in the health care spending that's darkening our fiscal horizon. Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-TN) falsely insisted that tax cuts increase revenues on Fox News Sunday, while Gov. Mitch Daniels (R-IN) misled Meet the Press viewers about Gov. Scott Walker's (R-WI) campaign rhetoric.
March 31, 2010 11:53 am ET filed under Fact Check
FactCheck.org Smacks Down The GOP's "16,500 New IRS Agents" Lie
In the final weeks of the health care debate, Republicans repeated the baseless claim that the Affordable Care Act required "16,500 additional IRS agents." The experts at FactCheck.org examined the claim yesterday and deemed it "wildly inaccurate."
May 01, 2009 10:27 am ET filed under Fact Check
In Their Own Words: The Majority's Prerogative
In 2005, many Republican Senators went so far as to claim the filibuster of judicial nominees was unconstitutional. Now four years later, with President Obama's first Supreme Court appointment looming, will they remain consistent in their position or commit one of the most blatant acts of hypocrisy in the 220-year history of the United States Senate?
