GOP: Pants Are On Fire

Rick Perry

A ridiculous claim no matter who says it

"The first round of stimulus ... it created zero jobs."

Mitt Romney

Comparing apples and oranges

The Massachusetts health care plan "dealt with 8 percent of our population," far less than the "100 percent of American people" affected by President Barack Obama’s health care law.

Michele Bachmann

Wrong in 2009, and wrong today

President Barack Obama "has virtually no one in his cabinet with private-sector experience."

Rick Perry

Not $2 billion and not from Obama

Says President Barack Obama delivered $2 billion to Brazil to help with offshore drilling projects.

Mitt Romney

Pants on Fire in June, Pants on fire now

"We're inches away from no longer having a free economy."

Victoria Jackson

Only if they fight with tongue depressors

"A clause hidden in the Obamacare bill, which is now law, gives Obama the right to form a private army."

Chain e-mail

Misinformed outrage over DOJ website

Says a quote at the top of the redesigned website for the Department of Justice comes from a socialist who wanted to impose global common law.

Chain e-mail

Chain e-mail lies to vets

Says that President Obama said, "Nobody made these guys go to war. ... Now they whine about bearing the costs of their choice?" 

Chain e-mail

E-mail is based on six fabricated quotes

Accuses President Barack Obama of making contradictory claims about efforts to kill Osama bin Laden in 2008 and 2011.

Mitt Romney

Wrong before, and even more wrong now

"A few months into office, (President Barack Obama) traveled around the globe to apologize for America."

Sarah Palin

Math doesn't add up

"We're going to be looking at $8 billion a day that we're going to be pouring into foreign countries in order to import that make-up fuel that we're going to need to take the place of what we could have gotten out of the gulf."

Mitt Romney

Marx wouldn't be happy with the U.S., circa 2011

"We are only inches away from ceasing to be a free market economy."

Crossroads GPS

Long explanation for a whole lot of nothing

"Unions don’t have to comply with Obamacare."

Chain e-mail

No light bulb police

Next year, "you will be mandated by federal law to get rid of your existing light bulbs."

AmeriPAC

Belied by light bulbs now on Home Depot shelves

"The Democrats have already voted to ban our conventional light bulbs ... in favor of dangerous fluorescent light bulbs."

Mitt Romney

The claim lives on

President Obama’s health care law "represents a government takeover of health care."