Archive for the 'Lying Republicans' Category

Republicans Ready to Allow a Min Wage Increase… But their Fat Cat Contributors Have to Get a Piece too

July 28th, 2006

 
From CNN.COM:
Minimum wage increase tied to tax cuts
House leadership couples bill to estate tax measure
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican leaders are willing to allow the first minimum wage increase in a decade but only if it’s coupled with a cut in future inheritance taxes on multimillion-dollar estates, congressional aides said Friday.
(more here)
My God, do these Republicans […]

Morons Who Believe WMD Have Been Found in Iraq Goes From 36% to 50%

July 27th, 2006

 
From Harris Interactive Polls…
Belief that Iraq Had Weapons of Mass Destruction Has Increased Substantially
Despite being widely reported in the media that the U.S. and other countries have not found any weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, surprisingly; more U.S. adults (50%) think that Iraq had such weapons when the U.S. invaded Iraq. This is an […]

Moron Republican Congressman Inhofe In Denial About Global Warming

July 24th, 2006

Product of red state education system
From ThinkProgress:
Sen. Inhofe Compares People Who Believe In Global Warming To ‘The Third Reich’
Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK) is the nation’s most prominent global warming denier. He famously declared that global warming is “the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.” Now, he’s taken the argument a step further. In […]

John Stewart and The Cost of the Iraq War

July 17th, 2006

George Bush “We’re gonna watch and make sure we spend the money in Iraq well, spend it wisely…”
Current cost of the Iraq War: $250 Billion (and counting)
What they were telling us it would cost in 2003: $1.7 Billion
Cost per Tax Payer for the Iraq war (and counting): $2,083.00
Estimate of how much of that has […]

Republican Lying Liars Continue to Lie About Their Lies

June 23rd, 2006

   
 Desperate Liar         Expert Liar         Clueless Liar
From YahooNews: 
New intel report reignites Iraq arms fight
WASHINGTON - Hundreds of chemical weapons found in Iraq were produced before the 1991 Gulf War and probably are so old they couldn’t be used as designed, intelligence officials said Thursday.
Two lawmakers — Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Pa., and House Intelligence Chairman Peter […]

Republican Rick Santorum LIES about Finding WMD in Iraq, And America Hating Fox News Helps Spread the Lies (Surpise Surprise)

June 22nd, 2006

(Just another Republican Liar)
Republican Senator Rick Santorum, desperate to deflect attention away from himself (ie: He’s a Senator from Pennsylvania that never lives there) held a press conference on The Fascist News Network (Fox) and boldly proclaimed to the world…
“We have found weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, chemical weapons”
“Since 2003, coalition forces have recovered approximately […]