Statements we say are Pants on Fire!
"The Massachusetts Supreme Court...defined marriage as simply, quote, the establishment of intimacy ... I guess that would mean if you really had affection for your horse, I guess you could marry your horse."
People "can't go fishing anymore because of Obama."
"A government panel that didn't include cancer specialists says women shouldn't receive mammograms until age 50...If government takes over health care, recommendations like these could become the law for all kinds of diseases."
"The economy began its nose dive when Democrats took control of Congress in January 2007."
"I'm glad for the wording of it (an ethics report on corporate-sponsored Congressional trips) because clearly the wording exonerates me."
The stimulus bill "didn’t create one new job."
The president's health care proposals will cause "most Americans to have their premiums increased, not decreased, and hundreds of millions of people lose their current insurance coverage."
There are "high administrative costs" when you donate to Haiti relief through the White House Web site.
A recent Obama executive order could "lead to a number of investigations by Interpol in the United States, potentially aimed at American officials."
President Obama "doesn't ... want to admit we're at war."
A data-storing microchip "would be implanted in the majority of people who opt to become covered by the public health care option."
Under the cap-and-trade bill, homes would have to be retrofitted to meet energy and water efficiency standards before they could be sold.
Maj. Nidal Hasan, the man accused of the Fort Hood shootings, "was an ADVISOR to the Obama Administration."
"In the health care bill, we're now offering insurance for dogs."
Page 92 of the House health care bill "says specifically that people can't purchase private health insurance after a date certain."
You must list all your guns on your 2010 tax return.
Barack Obama wrote a thesis at Columbia University in which he criticized "plutocratic thugs" and said the Constitution gave Americans "the shackles of hypocrisy."
If President Obama signs the Copenhagen climate change treaty, he "will sign your freedom, your democracy, and your prosperity away forever — and neither you nor any subsequent government you may elect would have any power whatsoever to take it back again."
The Obama White House is renaming Christmas trees "holiday trees."
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