Former Bush 43 adviser Karl Rove made a statement on Fox News the other day that Politifact.com decided needed to be fact-checked. Rove’s statement: “Obama used to be a lawyer for ACORN.” Now, this is a fairly straightforward statement. It seems to me that it can only be “true” or “false.” There’s no gray there. […]
There’s been a big brouhaha in the media in the days after President Obama’s address to a joint session of Congress in which he didn’t say anything new on the subject of health care. The faux outrage has centered on Rep. Joe Wilson’s (R-S.C.) outburst of “You lie!” to President Obama’s claim that Democrat health […]
The question for you today is which one will win out in President Obama’s decision-making process. This morning on “This Week with former Clinton adviser and Democrat activist George Stephanopoulous” interviewed Treasury Secretary Timothy “I never realized the housing market had collapsed” Geithner who made a rather stunning “gaffe.” (Using the Michael Kinsley definition of […]
In an interview with Businessweek magazine, President Obama tells a whopper. A lot of business leaders consider you to be antibusiness. I was struck when I attended the Aspen Institute Ideas Festival. [Council of Economic Advisers member] Austan Goolsbee was speaking, and he hit a fairly hostile audience. These are wealthy, fairly progressive older people […]
I’ve noted before that Politifact.com, despite its Pulitzer Prize and its claims of nonpartisanship, nonetheless does what it can to shield President Obama as best it can from having to call one of his hundreds of campaign promises “broken.” That trend has continued. As I noted last week, Democrats in Congress had assailed Obama for […]
President Barack Obama has got some members of his own party up on Capitol Hill in a tizzy over something he vowed during the campaign he wouldn’t do – using signing statements to ignore selected provisions of bills passed by Congress. Four senior House Democrats on Tuesday said they were "surprised" and "chagrined" by Obama's […]
The House is scheduled to vote on the Waxman-Markey cap-and-tax bill tomorrow. Only in the bizarro world of Congress can elected representatives pass a massive tax hike in the middle of the worst economic crisis in at least 30 years -- in the form of a bill most of them haven't even read. There's a […]
While Politifact.com has determined that President Barack Obama has not really broken his promise not to raise taxes on the bottom 95 percent of by passing an increase in the cigarette tax, other liberals are convinced it's just a matter of time. Looking at the gap between revenues and costs for Obama's health care plans, […]
I've been bashing Politifact.com lately because I think it deserves it. I've been critical of South Carolina GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham in the past, but he's right on this one: The Geneva Convention did not apply, until 2005, to the war on terror. Now, he's off by a year -- it should be 2006. However, […]
Earlier this month I noted that the Associated Press' "Fact Check" feature was more critical of President Barack Obama than Politifact.com's when it came to whether or not the increased cigarette tax violated Obama's pledge not to raise taxes on anyone making less than $250,000. On Obama's 100th day, the AP came out with another […]