Statements we say are Pants on Fire!
President Obama’s health care law "represents a government takeover of health care."
After the U.S.-led military alliance ejected Saddam Hussein’s forces from Kuwait in 1991, the Kuwaitis "never paid us."
"CNN did a poll recently where Obama and I are statistically tied."
"Seniors will have to find $12,500 for health care because Republicans voted to end Medicare."
"One. That's the number of new drilling permits under the Obama administration since they came into office."
"A U.S. Government Accountability Office report says Planned Parenthood Federation of America cannot find some $1.3 billion given to it by the federal government from 2002 through 2008."
"Any child born prematurely, according to the president, in his own words, can be killed."
Says Michelle Obama has 43 people on her staff; Nancy Reagan had just 3.
Says that in a hearing, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords suggested to Gen. David Petraeus that the Army "put more emphasis on less environmentally damaging methods, like stabbing or clubbing enemy forces in order to minimize the carbon output."
"The people that went to school with (Barack Obama), they never saw him, they don't know who he is."
Foreign Trade Zones allow U.S. "land to be inhabited by Chinese communists -- communists straight from China! They are to set up little towns and live here."
Members of Congress and their families and staff are exempt from repaying student loans.
"Since January 2008 the private sector has lost nearly 8 million jobs while local, state and federal governments added 590,000."
New food safety legislation will regulate backyard gardening.
Small businesses that have "$250,000 in gross sales for the business. They're the ones that are looking at massive tax increases."
"Congresswoman Kathy Castor voted to spend $2.6 million to teach prostitutes in China to drink responsibly."
Ed Perlmutter voted for "Viagra for rapists" paid for with tax dollars.
The new health care law will "force seniors into Barack Obama's government-run health care program."
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