Top Political Lies of 2011

“We signed into law the biggest middle-class tax cut in history, putting more money into your pockets.” – President Obama

The White House was quick to putty up the language in this trip by claiming that ‘biggest’ didn’t refer to monetary value, but the number of people who received the tax cut.  Course they did nothing other than run some numbers magic.  When 95% of a population gets a tax cut in today’s world where the American population is obviously higher than it’s ever been, more people are obviously going to get a tax cut.  Calling it a ‘middle-class tax cut’ however is a bit out of context when nearly 50% of the country falls into the low-income bracket.  If we’re talking monetary numbers, Obama’s tax cuts were about half the size of Bush’s and a fourth the size of JFK’s. 

“I’m happy to say I don’t think that I’ve said anything inaccurate in any of the debates.” – Michelle Bachman

Her accent already gives some Palin flashbacks, which probably isn’t the most constructive association.  Add her record of continuously lying on the campaign trail and it’s no wonder she’s slipped in the polls, and rightly so.  In nearly every debate she’s managed to confused fact with fiction.  “The CBO has said that Obamacare will kill 800,000 jobs.” There’s not a single CBO report that reflects that.  “In Obamacare the president of the United States took away $500 billion out of Medicare, shifted it to Obamacare to pay for younger people.”  Wrong again.  The Medicare savings are displaced on the providers. “Obama’s said in fact to Israel that they need to shrink back to their indefensible 1967 borders.” That’s funny because Obama seems quite content with allowing Israel to continue expanding their settlements.  “Obamacare took over one-sixth of the American economy.” Farmville has and will continue to take over more of the economy than Obamacare.