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News Hounds: Fox News Not An Arm Of The GOP? Hannity And Bachmann Team Up To “Tell Nancy Pelosi What She Can Do With The Pelosi Health Care Plan”
Fired Up! Missouri: All Kinds of Crazy: Luetkemeyer Regurgitating Bogus Claims About Dems' Health Plan
California Conservative: Is Ruth Marcus the Next Linda Douglass?
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@jonmanderson Read facts http://bit.ly/3PZEZR Proclaiming 2B Christian, letting millions die from lack of insurance make sense?? #sctweets 27 days ago |
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RT @HealthReformNow Dem #hcr will cost 4.7 million jobs? Pulitizer-Prize winner Politifact says "distortion" & "false" http://bit.ly/3PZEZR 28 days ago |
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Texas lawmaker is latest Republican to say health bill would kill 4.7 million jobs - WRONG. http://tinyurl.com/npfqjr 28 days ago |
Fox News Not An Arm Of The GOP? Hannity And Bachmann Team Up To “Tell Nancy Pelosi What She Can Do With The Pelosi Health Care Plan”
News Hounds —
... Bachmann moved on to her next falsehood, one that has been used by other Republicans: “Christina Romer, President Obama’s economic advisor said we’re looking at about 5.5 million jobs lost if this bill goes into play.” As PolitiFact noted in their investigation of that claim, Romer never said that. PolitiFact wrote, “The number comes from calculations made by the Republican staff of the House Ways and Means Committee, based on ideas in two papers co-authored by Romer, who was an economist at the University of California, Berkeley, before joining the administration.” Because of ...
All Kinds of Crazy: Luetkemeyer Regurgitating Bogus Claims About Dems' Health Plan
Fired Up! Missouri —
... False. Obama's economic adviser -- Christina Romer, chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers -- has never said that a tax in the health care bill would cost up to 5.5 million jobs. Republicans have used her 2007 research to develop a calculation for job losses for any type of tax increase. If you have a number for tax revenues generated, then this model will give you a number of jobs lost. But there are factors that make this type of analysis troublesome when it comes to the health care bill. Romer's 2007 research, for ...
Is Ruth Marcus the Next Linda Douglass?
California Conservative —
... Folks, she’s got us on this one. Christina Romer didn’t estimate that we’d lose 5.5 million jobs during her time as chair of the Council of Economic Advisers. According to Politifact, here’s the accurate wording: ...
