Statements we say are Pants on Fire!
"The federal government has not engaged in (border security) at all."
President Obama "went around the world and apologized for America."
"The first round of stimulus ... it created zero jobs."
The Massachusetts health care plan "dealt with 8 percent of our population," far less than the "100 percent of American people" affected by President Barack Obama’s health care law.
President Barack Obama "has virtually no one in his cabinet with private-sector experience."
Says President Barack Obama delivered $2 billion to Brazil to help with offshore drilling projects.
"We're inches away from no longer having a free economy."
There was a "loss of eight million jobs during the Bush eight years."
"A clause hidden in the Obamacare bill, which is now law, gives Obama the right to form a private army."
Says a quote at the top of the redesigned website for the Department of Justice comes from a socialist who wanted to impose global common law.
Says that President Obama said, "Nobody made these guys go to war. ... Now they whine about bearing the costs of their choice?"
"What I have done -- and this is unprecedented ... is I've said to each agency ... 'look at regulations that are already on the books and if they don't make sense, let's get rid of them.'"
Accuses President Barack Obama of making contradictory claims about efforts to kill Osama bin Laden in 2008 and 2011.
"A few months into office, (President Barack Obama) traveled around the globe to apologize for America."
"We're going to be looking at $8 billion a day that we're going to be pouring into foreign countries in order to import that make-up fuel that we're going to need to take the place of what we could have gotten out of the gulf."
"We are only inches away from ceasing to be a free market economy."
"Unions don’t have to comply with Obamacare."
Next year, "you will be mandated by federal law to get rid of your existing light bulbs."
"The Democrats have already voted to ban our conventional light bulbs ... in favor of dangerous fluorescent light bulbs."
Promotes a chart saying that Barack Obama has "increased the debt" by 16 percent, compared to George W. Bush, who increased it by 115 percent.
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