More From The - Lie Of The Day Archives

Lie: Private sector jobs are doing just fine.
--Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. That 9.1% unemployment sure does indicate that the private sector is just fine.

Lie: I just want to work with Republicans on ways to create jobs.
--President Obama, just a few months after inviting Paul Ryan to a speech just so he can insult Paul to his face.

Lie: In some ways, they're not that different from some of the protests that we saw coming from the Tea Party.
--President Obama. Yes, they are both groups of people. That is where the similarities end.

Lie: Maybe they just couldn't understand the whole thing all at once.
--President Obama on why Congress did not pass his jobs bill. No, it was not passed because your first stimulus did nothing and this one will be a repeat of the first.

Lie: This bill at its core is an attack on women, especially poor women.
--Rep. Betty Sutton on the abortion funding ban passed by the House. The bill is not an attack on women, it is meant to preserve the life of future women.

Lie: Nobody wants to punish success in America.
--President Obama, who is currently pushing a tax on millionaires.

Lie: None of us make it on our own.
--President Obama showing that he just does not understand business.

Lie: If anything adds a cost to a business, you could assume that that will diminish that business's ability to hire. But I don't think that's actually right.
--Rep. Keith Ellison, who clearly has never run a business.

Lie: We have turned it around.
--Joe Biden talking about the economy. Really? 9.1% unemployment and sub-1% GDP growth is turning it around.

Lie: The Attorney General's testimony was consistent and truthful.
--Jay Carney, White House spokesman defending Eric Holder over Fast and Furious. This week, emails that were leaked showed that Holder was briefed on Fast and Furious in 2010, even though he claimed to Congress he found out about the program in 2011

Lie: This is a great, great country that had gotten a little soft.
--President Obama. Nope, our country is not soft, but our president has shown himself to be soft many times.

Lie: Our administration consistently has supported the basic concept that we are a nation of laws but we're also a nation of immigrants...and that we have to create a system that works for all of us. The way to do that is to be serious about border security -- and we have been.
--President Obama, whose administration fudges the numbers on deportations and thinks the way to stop illegal immigration is by creating incentives for them to come here (like a free education!)

Via: Laura Ingraham

More From The - Lie Of The Day Archives

Lie: Nobody did well on their own.
--President Obama, the man who has apparently never talked to an entrepreneur who did take a risk to make it on their own.

Lie: If you talk to companies around the country like I do, you'll see that something -- something very promising is starting to happen right now.
--Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, on the very same day the CEO of Coke says it is easier to do business in China than in the United States.

Lie: It just shows the weak, dark, underside of America.
--Morgan Freeman talking about the tea party. Really? A grassroots movement that wants lower taxes and less government is the dark underside of America?

Lie: This isn't to punish success...all I'm saying is that everything should be fair.
--President Obama. Fair? Why not give everyone the same, low tax rate. Wouldn't that be more fair than sticking it to rich people just to try and grab some votes?

Lie: There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own.
--Massachusetts Senate candidate and Obama crony Elizabeth Warren. You're right, they just went out back and picked money off their money tree given to them by the Koch brothers.

Lie: Nobody wants to punish success in America.
--President Obama on his deficit plan which targets small businesses and wealthy individuals with more taxes.

Lie: This is not class warfare.
--President Obama on his new plan to tax millionaires and billionaires.

Lie: There's nothing much to brief him on.
--White House Press Secretary Jay Carney talking about Solyndra. Really? The president and his team pumped-up Solyndra for 2 years, it goes under, and there is nothing to tell the president?

Lie: It's not about positioning for the election. It's about giving the American people a win.
--President Obama talking about his jobs act. Of course this is about your reelection Barack, there is no need to hide it.

Lie: Special elections are often unique, and their outcomes don't tell you very much about future, regularly scheduled elections.
--White House Press Secretary Jay Carney, is trying to play off the GOP win in NY-9, even though both sides made it a referendum on Obama.

Via: laura ingraham

More From The Lie Of The Day Archives

Lie: The Republicans are simply not willing to do anything but sit on their hands and cross their arms like spoiled children.
--DNC chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Shultz. Does she know that the GOP House passed a budget and the Democrat controlled Senate has not?

Lie: I don't worry about my reelection prospects right now.
--President Obama, who has not stopped campaigning since 2007.

Lie: I'm ready to roll up my sleeves.
--President Obama, who has said this time and time again while throwing out the same old, failing ideas.

Lie: If the wealthiest among us -- and I include myself in this category -- are willing to give up a little bit more, then we can solve this problem.
--President Obama. Apparently arithmetic is not his strength as you could tax everyone making $250,000 or more 100% and it still wouldn't close our budget gap.

Lie: They just want us to get something done that's sensible, that spreads the sacrifice and spreads the prosperity.
--White House Press Secretary Jay Carney. No, Americans want jobs, not more of this "sharing" that hasn't worked over the past two and a half years.

Lie: It is absolutely critical that we get a handle on our finances.
--President Obama. For him, getting a handle on our finances is so important he went to several fundraisers after scolding Congress about getting a debt deal done.

Lie: I want to make sure that I am not engaging in scare tactics and I've tried to be responsible and somewhat restrained so that folks don't get spooked.
--President Obama, who has informed us that the GOP wants to take away Grandma's health insurance to pay for corporate jet flights while they play chicken with our credit rating.

Lie: I believe in an America where our government lives within its means.
--President Obama, who has three consecutive $1 trillion deficits to his name.

Lie: We've got to start working like a team, instead of having the kind of squabbling we see in Washington all the time.
--President Obama, who has done nothing but make the budget debate as partisian as possible.

HT: Laura Ingraham

Miscellaneous Lies By Liberals

From the . . . Let's not try to sneak political agendas into a budget debate.
--President Obama, the man who politicizes everything.

The president is committed to reducing spending -- cutting spending and reducing the deficit.
--White House spokesman Jay Carney.

It's important to note that the people that we've met with have been fully vetted, so we have a clear sense of who they are...most of them are professionals, lawyers, doctors, people who appear to be credible.
--President Obama on the Libya rebels who we know almost nothing about, or so says Secretary Clinton.

The border is better now than it ever has been.
--Janet Napolitano.

The President does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation.
--Barack Obama in 2007. (So now it's okay?)

Just 12 months after the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act became law, the American people are enjoying new protections, greater freedoms and lower costs.
--Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sibelius.

We've been called too conservative.
--NPR's (former) President Vivian Schiller.

We call the President "The Fact Guy" because he reads so much he knows facts about everything.
-Michelle Obama.

His [Obama's] budget absolutely does this -- where we are no longer spending more than we're taking in.
--Press Secretary Jay Carney.

I think it's very easy to square our military actions and our stated policies.
--President Obama, even though he never made the case that we need to be in Libya.

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Blog author's comments - Nothing more to add aside from saying there are many more of these untruths stashed in the "lie of the day archives."

h/t: laura ingraham