Today’s Lie: President Obama raided Medicare – taking $716 Billion from seniors and using it to fund “Obamacare”. On the day of his inauguration, Republican leaders made a concious and documented decision to oppose and demonise President Obama for the sole purpose of regaining political power. They have done so to the detriment of this …
Today’s Lie: “One of the downsides of releasing one’s financial information is that [our tithing] is now all public, but we had never intended our contributions to be known. It’s a very personal thing between ourselves and our commitment to our God and to our church.” So… he doesn’t want to release his tax returns …
Today’s lie: “The Congressional Budget Office says assumptions about the Medicare trust fund being solvent through 2024 under the Obamacare proposal is unrealistic.” This whopper came from Romney senior adviser Ed Gillespie when he got caught defending Romney-Ryan’s other Medicare lie (see earlier “Pants on Fire” post). Interestingly, his first defense was to tell the …