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101 Biggest Republican Lies
#1: 9/11 Was Clinton's Fault
Five weeks after Clinton takes office in 1993, terrorists bomb the World Trade Center. Clinton doesn't blame his predecessor, Bush #41, but gets busy catching terrorists.
Within four years, Clinton's Justice Dept captures, convicts and sentences all but one of the bomb plot players- including its mastermind. Although overseas American interests are hit twice more, there are no additional attacks on American soil during Clinton's watch, and more terrorist plots are thwarted than executed (including the then-unprecedented Millenium/LAX plot). All without alienating allies, starting any wars, or curtailing a single civil liberty. And fighting Republican obstructionism the whole way.
It doesn't take long for the Accountability Party to blame Clinton for 9/11- an especially shameful moment considering the number of terror plots Clinton DID foil- but the GOP is, after all, in charge when 9/11 goes down, so the question stands: What could George W. have done to prevent 9/11? A close look reveals the most shameless Republican lies of all...
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#2: Dems & Ma Nature Cause High Oil Prices
During Election 2000, the Republican Congress scraps a Gore-sponsored initiative that would have raised the fuel efficiency average by 5 mpg. Had it been possible to enact that measure immediately, Americans would be enjoying nearly 0% dependence on Middle Eastern oil today.
At the same time, oil companies create artificial shortages in America's Heartland, causing gas prices to spiral rapidly upwards. George W then ridicules Gore for his inability to "jawbone" OPEC, and declares that only he has the clout to keep future gas prices low. But if you secretly hoped a Texas oilman in the White House would rassle up some cheap gas for your Hummer, you were the biggest sucker of all...
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#3: Republicans Represent the People
Did You Know...? The average personal net worth of the top fifteen Bush administration officials, including the President and Vice President, was between $10 million and $30 million in 2000 (and has increased by about 30% since then). That’s more than ten times the average net worth of Clinton cabinet officials- whom Republicans repeatedly charicatured as rich elites. Favored holdings? Energy, defense, and pharmaceutical. 'Class Warfare' indeed.
[NOTE: Thanks to Center for Public Integrity ]
#4: Rudy Giuliani is an American Hero
Jimmy Breslin exposes TIME Magazine’s Man of the Year, former NYC Mayor Rudolph Giuliani. Once in the private sector, Rudolph Giuliani stops payments to 9/11 widows/families from the $70,000,000 Twin Towers Fund. He announces that he’s transferring fund assets from a city-run nonprofit organization to a private entity headed by himself.
Giuliani's first order of business? Hiring his longtime lover, Judi Nathan (whom he introduced to his wife for the first time at a public press conference), post-haste- and at a yearly salary of $100K to boot. She has a couple of friends who could use jobs, too. By the time the dust settles, the cost of administrating the Twin Towers Fund has reached $2 million a year. Had the fund remained with the city, the cost of running it would have been minimal, but Giuliani argues that he must control the Fund because un-named benefactors trust only his oversight of their substantial donations.
#5: Rush Limbaugh is a Working Stiff Like You
"Oil prices are starting to skyrocket, and as we discussed yesterday, the gasoline price is starting to head north. In many places it's up to $2.15 or higher, and of course I haven't changed my attitude about this from yesterday. It doesn't matter to me. I mean, as prices go higher my philosophy is go earn more money."
"It certainly makes more sense than to sit around griping about it, doesn't it? I mean, so many things are predictable here. You know that every spring or on the verge of every spring we're going to get stories about gasoline prices going up, and we know that the public is going to screech and howl and talk about how unfair it is and, "Oh, woe is us." And the media is going to start targeting the usual suspects, the evil, greedy oil companies, and, of course, our dependence on foreign oil."
Rush Limbaugh on the sudden and spectacular rise of oil prices.
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