29th December
2009
Politifact has chosen a lie of the year. It couldn’t have been an easy task with so many huge lies, but the winner is death panels. Told and retold by a variety of people, it’s safe to say Sarah Palin deserves much of the credit for it’s “Lie of the Year” status.
Death panels also show up on factcheck’s Whoppers of 2009. That list is full of lies from both parties, many focusing on health care reform.
Enjoy year-end lists.
Adam Feser
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I think it should have been Obama promising fiscal responsibility in his administration. Instead we’ve seen record deficits.
President Obama kind of inherited the deficit as large as it is. If you’ve followed his major policies, he’s tried to build them to have cost savings and be deficit neutral. The stimulus couldn’t really be that deficit neutral because the point of it was to spend money on jobs to get our economy back on track (something conservatives don’t seem to understand). But other stuff, like health care reform, has been striving for savings and to help lower the deficit. Another Republicans are deaf to is the fact that the health care reform bill will actually lower the deficit.
I think Obama has been much more fiscally responsible than President Bush and the Republicans have been.
I wasn’t talking about the national deficit, I was talking about the annual deficit for his first year and the projected deficit for his second year, both above and beyond anything Bush did. I will say, as I have before, that many Republicans who are actually conservative were outraged at Bush’s spending, so that doesn’t really work as an excuse, the only way it would is if you were fighting with Republicans who supported Bush’s spending.
As far as health care reform…which bill??? Some bills show savings over time, others show savings for a little while followed by a potential explosion in cost. Let’s not forget that our government promised a sustainable social security program and that is no longer the case, but they don’t even want to talk about that anymore.
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