Politifact rates claims and allegations as being “False” when they don’t qualify as outright lies, but are baseless and misleading. Below is a list of the “False” lies told by Republicans and Tea Party members about President Obama. The links go the detailed documentation analysis.
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Statements Made By The GOP
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Says the National Labor Relations Board told Boeing that it "can't build a factory in a non-union state."
Mitt Romney
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"These 15 political appointees (on the IPAB) will make all the major health care decisions for over 300 million Americans."
Michele Bachmann
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"If
we had been on 'Obamacare' and a bureaucrat was trying to tell me when I
could get that CAT scan, that would have delayed my treatment."
Herman Cain
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Social Security is a "Ponzi scheme."
Rick Perry
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Scientists
are "questioning the original idea that man-made global warming is what
is causing the climate to change. … (It is) more and more being put
into question."
Rick Perry
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"The
weight of the evidence (on global warming) is that most of it, maybe
all of it, is because of natural causes ... it’s fair to say the science
is in dispute."
Tim Pawlenty
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When
Standard & Poor's "dropped our credit rating, what they said is, we
don't have an ability to repay our debt. ... I was proved right in my
position" that the debt ceiling should not have been raised.
Michele Bachmann
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"The country's bankrupt."
Ron Paul
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"Every time we've cut the capital gains tax, the economy has grown. Whenever we raise the capital gains tax, it's been damaged."
Grover Norquist
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"We've got more revenue than we ever have."
Jim DeMint
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"If
you threw a barbecue yesterday for the Memorial weekend, it was 29
percent more expensive than last year because Barack Obama's policies
have led to groceries going up 29 percent."
Michele Bachmann
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"This is the slowest job recovery since Hoover."
Mitt Romney
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Says President Barack Obama "has put (up) a stop sign … against oil drilling, against any kind of exploration
Rick Santorum
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"We have unemployment that rivals the Great Depression."
Reince Priebus, RNC Chairperson
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"Look
at the debt that has been accumulated in the last two years. It's more
debt under this president than all those other presidents combined."
Sarah Palin
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The
Bush tax cuts "created about 8 million jobs over the first 10 years
that they were in existence. We've lost about 5 million of those jobs
during this recession."
John Boehner
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"Over the last two years since President Obama has taken office, the federal government has added 200,000 new federal jobs."
John Boehner
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The health care law is "job killing."
Eric Cantor
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"The average federal employee makes $120,000 a year. The average private employee makes $60,000 a year."
Rand Paul
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The new health care law crushes small businesses "with billions in penalties."
US Chamber of Commerce
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