| Lie: We should be developing those renewable energy sources, and creating those high-wage, high-skill jobs right here in the United States of America. That's what comprehensive energy and climate reform would do. And that's why I intend to keep pushing this issue forward. |
| --President Obama pushes a national energy tax |
| Lie: If you look again at what [President Obama is] proposing, he keeps the overall size of government at a very modest level, lower than what was in the Bush administration, comparable to what President Reagan presided over. |
| --Treasury Secretary Geithner on NBC's Meet the Press |
| Lie: We're in a transition from the extraordinary actions the government had to take to break the back of this financial crisis to a recovery led by private demand. That transition is well under way. |
| --Treasury Secretary Geithner on NBC's Meet the Press |
| Lie: ...ensuring that our government serves as a responsible steward for the tax dollars of the American people...is a responsibility we've been working to fulfill from the very beginning of this administration. |
| --President Obama |
| Lie: Because of this law...there will be no more tax-funded bailouts--period. |
| --President Obama as he signed his financial "reform" bill into law. |
| Lie: This particular caucus I think is going to create problems for the Republicans. Most Americans, the vast majority, are not way out where the tea party is. |
| --Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD) on Michele Bachmann's (R-MN) new tea party congressional caucus |
| Lie: Many of these people have served in the military, they have been injured, they have lost their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan...let's not punish these people who have given so much so you and I can enjoy the freedoms we currently have. |
| --Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-SC) claims the illegal immigrants Arizona's immigration law targets have fought and died in the War on Terror. |
| Lie: I don't think the losses are going to be bad at all. I think we're going to shock the heck out of everybody. |
| --Vice President Joe Biden on ABC News on the Democrats' forecast for November |
| Lie: There a whole host of issues that will be worked on in the next couple weeks that will highlight the choices that voters will have. And I think in that choice, we are going to do very well. And as I have said throughout this, I think we will retain the House and the Senate. |
| --White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs |
| Lie: [Michelle Obama] is a fitness expert...because she's always gotten up and she's exercised. |
| --On The View, Sherri Shepherd buys into the razzle dazzle. |
Everyone understands that we're less than 100 days from an election. It's during this time that the noise and the chatter about who's up in the polls and which party is ahead threatens to drown out just about everything else.
