Bob Schieffer Falsely Claims Ryan Budget 'Really Slashes Into Social P

August 13th, 2012 12:36 PM
On Monday's CBS This Morning, Bob Schieffer again forwarded the liberal talking point that GOP vice presidential apparent Paul Ryan's budget plan would drastically cut federal spending. Schieffer claimed, "There's some really tough stuff in there. I mean, he really slashes into social programs...it's across the board – in order to try to get this budget back into balance." Ryan's proposal…

Tax Increase Campaign Item 3: Wars Cost Money And Rich Must Pay, MI Se

November 21st, 2009 10:37 AM
At this point, there should be little doubt that there is a concerted attempt underway to use the war in Afghanistan as a justification for punitively taxing high earners. Last weekend (noted at NewsBusters; at BizzyBlog), the New York Times discovered that wars cost money. It cited Wisconsin Democratic Congressman David Obey's concern that funding the Afghanistan effort at the level requested…

AFP Writes Up Proposed Tax With 'Next to No Chance' of Passage to Set

November 20th, 2009 10:59 PM
You've got to hand it to the propagandists at the AFP. When heavy-hitting members of the party they favor announce an idea whose main purpose is, as the New York Times suddenly "discovered" last weekend, to remind people that wars cost money and distract from supposedly more important priorities, the wire service leaps into action. Even AFP acknowledges that the tax proposal by several top-tier…

Will The Networks Dare to Find Division Between Democrats

May 15th, 2009 9:01 AM

David Obey: 'Al Qaeda Out of Targets'; Old Media Apparently Out of Ink

November 7th, 2007 8:25 AM
Just when you thought those holding on to the claim that the Iraq War is a failure had reached the intellectual bottom of the barrel, we get this from David Obey, as reported by Mike Soraghan at The Hill: Terrorists are ‘running out of people to kill,’ says Obey If violence is decreasing in Iraq, it may be because insurgents “are running out of people to kill,” House Appropriations Committee…