January 27, 2012 11:01 am ET filed under Blog
The 5.6 Million Reasons Behind GOP Senators' Letter To Obama
January 26, 2012 1:21 pm ET filed under Blog
Romney Echoes Nativist Group Language With "Self-Deportation" Comment
November 23, 2011 10:14 am ET filed under Blog
Rep. Brooks Credits Alabama's Immigration Law With Declining Unemployment Rate
November 14, 2011 3:30 pm ET filed under Blog
What Rep. Bachus Was Saying While Profiting From The Financial Crisis
November 11, 2011 9:39 am ET filed under Blog
Personhood Redux: Alabama Tweaks Failed Mississippi Amendment
October 24, 2011 11:58 am ET filed under Blog
Sens. Sessions And Snowe Think It's Too Easy For Senate To Pass Legislation
October 13, 2011 11:04 am ET filed under Video
Alabama Immigration Law Is "Far More Imposing On Those Who Look Different"
October 07, 2011 2:03 pm ET filed under Blog
Alabama Copies Georgia's Failed Plan To Replace Migrant Farmworkers
October 04, 2011 9:38 am ET filed under Video
Rep. Brooks Pushes Plan To 'Evict' All Undocumented Workers
September 23, 2011 9:03 am ET filed under Blog
One Year Later, The Affordable Care Act's Consumer Protections Are Working
September 21, 2011 2:09 pm ET filed under Video
Rep. Brooks Continues To Portray "Illegal Aliens" As Violent Criminals
From the September 20, 2011, session of the U.S. House of Representatives:
September 16, 2011 4:31 pm ET filed under Blog
Rep. Brooks Compares Deadliness Of "Illegal Aliens" To Wars In Iraq And Afghanistan
September 08, 2011 1:29 pm ET filed under Blog
Rep. Brooks' "Surefire" Jobs Plan: "Evict All Illegal Aliens From America"
September 08, 2011 1:04 pm ET filed under Video
Rep. Brooks' "Surefire" Jobs Plan: "Evict All Illegal Aliens From America"
August 18, 2011 3:30 pm ET filed under Blog
Rep. Lamar Smith Misses The Big Picture On Workplace Raids
August 08, 2011 10:01 am ET filed under Blog
Fact Checking The Sunday Shows - August 7, 2011
August 08, 2011 9:46 am ET filed under Fact Check
Fact Checking The Sunday Shows - August 7, 2011
The highlight of yesterday's Sunday political talk shows was Rep. Paul Ryan's (R-WI) deceptive performance on Fox. Ryan misled on a range of topics, from the causes of the S&P downgrade of U.S. debt, to the drivers of that debt, to President Obama's policy positions, to the reasons businesses aren't expanding today, with plenty of stops in between. By comparison, Sen. John McCain's (R-AZ) dishonesty about Afghanistan and Social Security, Sen. Lindsey Graham's (R-SC) bogus economic statistics, and Sen. Jeff Sessions' (R-AL) deceit on deficits under President Bush and Democrats' willingness to cut spending were barely even blips on the radar.
July 20, 2011 2:40 pm ET filed under Blog
GOP Freshman: 'It's Obama's Debt Ceiling'
July 20, 2011 1:03 pm ET filed under Blog
Costly Alabama Immigration Law Leaves Immigrants In Legal Limbo
July 11, 2011 11:30 am ET filed under Blog
Fact Checking The Sunday Shows - July 10, 2011
July 11, 2011 11:09 am ET filed under Fact Check
Fact Checking The Sunday Shows - July 10, 2011
This week's Sunday political talk shows focused largely on the looming default crisis, with a chorus of Republican leaders singing the GOP talking points on the negotiations. In the wake of Speaker John Boehner's (R-OH) reported rejection of President Obama's proposal of trillions in deficit reduction for an increase in the debt ceiling, Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) dishonestly told Fox News Sunday viewers that "Nobody is talking about not raising the debt ceiling." Also on Fox, Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) defended his demand for a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution by misleadingly stating that 49 states are required to balance their budgets every year. On CNN, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) misrepresented Senate Democrats' proposal for lowering the debt and wrongly claimed that federal revenues went up as a result of the Bush tax cuts. And on NBC's Meet the Press, presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty unleashed a series of false attacks on President Obama's economic record.
July 08, 2011 5:00 pm ET filed under Blog
CIS' Krikorian: "Modern Society Has No Need For Any Immigration"
July 08, 2011 2:52 pm ET filed under Blog
Kris Kobach Takes Wildly Misinformed Victory Lap Over Decision Upholding AZ E-Verify Law
July 06, 2011 4:38 pm ET filed under Blog
Alabama Immigration Law Could Force Education Cuts
June 29, 2011 5:24 pm ET filed under Blog
FAIR Pens Op-Ed Bashing States With Liberal Immigration Laws
June 13, 2011 10:01 am ET filed under Blog
Fact Checking The Sunday Shows - June 12, 2011
June 13, 2011 9:43 am ET filed under Fact Check
Fact Checking The Sunday Shows - June 12, 2011
Sunday saw multiple GOPers blaming President Obama for job losses that are rightly blamed on President Bush's recession and pretending that Obama policies haven't started to turn the job market around. Republicans have never stopped misleading people about the impact of the Recovery Act, but ignoring two million new private-sector jobs since February 2010 is shameless. Presidential hopeful Tim Pawlenty, RNC Chairman Reince Priebus and Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL) each offered one jobs lie or another. Pawlenty claimed that tax cuts pay for themselves (they don't), that President Obama is "out of ideas" on economic and entitlement issues (false), that we "have to" cut Social Security (nope), that the Affordable Care Act cut $500 billion from Medicare (wrong again), and that he didn't really leave a $6 billion deficit behind at the end of his term as Governor of Minnesota (nice try). Meanwhile, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) falsely claimed on CBS that the GOP Medicare plan doesn't affect current seniors, Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) told CNN that ending oil subsidies will increase gas prices, and Rep. Charlie Bass (R-NH) told CNN that the debt ceiling deadline isn't real because "the global economy will understand" if we default.
May 18, 2011 2:26 pm ET filed under Blog
Does Sen. Sessions Think Constitutional Rights Are "Not Mandated By Law"?
May 11, 2011 4:25 pm ET filed under Fact Check
Sen. Sessions: "American People Do Not Favor More Taxation" For The Wealthy
This morning on Fox News, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) repeated the right-wing talking point that the 2010 election gave the GOP a mandate to pass essentially anything they want in the name of the American people, including additional tax cuts for the wealthy. Sessions explicitly claimed the American people reject any Democratic plan that includes a tax increase on the rich when, in fact, most Americans favor upper-income tax increases as a responsible way to get our fiscal house in order.
April 11, 2011 10:27 am ET filed under Blog
Fact Checking The Sunday Shows - April 10, 2011
