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Monthly Archives: June 2011
Dueling Economic Ads
A conservative group's ad makes the rise in unemployment under President Obama appear worse than it actually is. And in a counter-attack ad, a liberal group offers its spin on GOP economic plans. Crossroads GPS, which spent heavily in the midterm elections to defeat Democrats, is spending $5 million to …
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Tagged Crossroads GPS, medicare, Priorities USA Action, stimulus, unemployment
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Pelosi’s True Spin
Nancy Pelosi accurately — but misleadingly — said more private jobs were created last year than under Bush. Her statement was true. But it's also true that there were still 2,065,000 fewer private jobs in May than there were when Obama took office At last year's pace of job creation, …
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FactCheck Mailbag, Week of June 21-27
This week, readers sent us compliments about FactCheck.org and comments on a chain e-mail making claims about President Obama. In the FactCheck Mailbag, we feature some of the e-mail we receive. Readers can send comments to editor@factcheck.org. Letters may be edited for length.
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Deficit Arithmetic: Cut Everything 34% Now?
Without an increase in the debt ceiling, could Washington avoid default simply by cutting spending? That's what two leading Republicans, Rep. Michele Bachmann and Sen. Jim DeMint, urged over the weekend. What they didn't say is that this would require instant cuts of at least 34 percent in everything but …
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Tagged debt ceiling, default, Jim DeMint, Michele Bachmann, spending
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Huntsman, Lincoln and Hallmark
Jon Huntsman wrongly paraphrased Abraham Lincoln as saying: "[W]e are a great country because we are a good country." Lincoln assuredly never said that. The expression is similar to a common political bromide that Ronald Reagan and others have attributed to Alexis de Tocqueville. But de Tocqueville didn't write those …
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Tagged Abraham Lincoln, Alexis de Tocqueville, Jon Huntsman
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Huntsman’s $1 Trillion Mistake
Jon Huntsman was off by $1 trillion or more when he claimed that Social Security, Medicare and interest payments would consume "every dollar of federal revenue" within 10 years. A spokesman says Huntsman meant to include Medicaid in that list, but even that wouldn't make the claim accurate. In his …
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Durbin’s Debt Problem
Sen. Dick Durbin incorrectly claimed that the U.S. borrows money "primarily from China" to fund the federal government. China owns about 8 percent of the total U.S. debt. The Illinois Democrat made the claim during a June 19 interview on NBC's "Meet the Press." Durbin, June 19: Keep in mind, …
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