January 31, 2012 12:40 pm ET filed under Video
Rep. Kingston Tries To Distance RNC Chairman's Cruise Ship Comment From GOP
From a January 31, 2012, appearance by Rep. Jack Kingston (R-GA) on MSNBC's Morning Joe:
January 30, 2012 4:09 pm ET filed under Blog
RNC Chair: Critics Of Cruise Ship Analogy Are Engaging In "Political Gamesmanship"
December 05, 2011 10:00 am ET filed under Blog
Fact Checking The Sunday Shows - December 4, 2011
December 05, 2011 9:52 am ET filed under Fact Check
Fact Checking The Sunday Shows - December 4, 2011
On the first Sunday of December, GOP presidential contender Rep. Michele Bachmann (MN) and RNC Chairman Reince Priebus each brought their share of falsehoods to the table. On CNN's State of the Union, Bachmann dismissed the economic significance of the payroll tax holiday even though economists explain that putting more money in the hands of workers would give an appreciable boost to the economy. She also appeared on Fox News Sunday, where she falsely claimed that businesses aren't hiring because they don't have enough money. During his appearances, Priebus did his best to attack the Obama administration's record, distorting the reasons behind November's unemployment rate drop on Meet the Press. He also tried to blame President Obama for deficits that are a legacy of Bush-era Republican policies and for a rising poverty rate that's the result of the recession.
November 14, 2011 10:37 am ET filed under Blog
Fact Checking The Sunday Shows - November 13, 2011
November 14, 2011 10:29 am ET filed under Fact Check
Fact Checking The Sunday Shows - November 13, 2011
The Penn State sexual abuse scandal headlined the political talk shows on Sunday, but Republican leaders still found plenty of time to air dishonest talking points about conservative policies. GOP super committee members Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-TX) and Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA) misled viewers about the root of the debt problem the committee is trying to solve and what Republicans have proposed to address it. In particular, both lawmakers severely distorted the impact of the failed Bush tax cuts. Elsewhere, RNC Chairman Reince Priebus declared that Republicans want to "reduce taxes on every single American," ignoring the party leaders demanding that the poor pay higher taxes, and struggling presidential candidate Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) claimed that "what we need to win this war on terror" is the reinstatement of Bush-approved torture techniques.
November 04, 2011 3:46 pm ET filed under Blog
GOP Responses To Jobs Report Ignore Main Obstacle To Growth
November 04, 2011 3:05 pm ET filed under Fact Check
GOP Responses To Jobs Report Ignore Main Obstacle To Growth
With the news this morning that the private economy added 104,000 jobs but the public sector shed 24,000, prominent Republicans had a chance to trot out the same tired, debunked explanation for slow economic growth they've been using throughout the Obama presidency. According to the GOP, job creators are not hiring because of regulations and high spending from Washington, D.C. But according to the job creators themselves, regulations, taxes and spending are not the issue — they simply don't have enough customers to justify expanding their workforces. The problem continues to be weak demand.
September 26, 2011 10:09 am ET filed under Blog
Fact Checking The Sunday Shows - September 25, 2011
September 26, 2011 9:50 am ET filed under Fact Check
Fact Checking The Sunday Shows - September 25, 2011
This week's Sunday talk shows saw Republicans sloppily blaming President Obama wholesale for America's economic woes. On Fox News Sunday, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) used his bully pulpit to claim President Obama made "every problem" he inherited from Bush's failed economic polices "much worse." On Face the Nation, RNC Chair Reince Priebus took the same tack by claiming DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz couldn't "point to one economic statistic in this country that Barack Obama has made better." Graham also absurdly claimed that cuts to the defense department triggered if the super committee fails to reach a compromise would "destroy the Defense Department." And on State of the Union, Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN) struggled to absolve the Tea Party of blame for a third budgetary standoff in the House, instead accusing Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) instead of 'manufacturing a crisis.'
August 18, 2011 10:05 am ET filed under Video
Priebus: "There Was Compromise, The Republicans Passed Cut, Cap And Balance"
From the August 18, 2011, episode of The Daily Rundown on MSNBC:
August 08, 2011 4:50 pm ET filed under Blog
Priebus' Downgrade Duplicity: "We're Not Saying" That "It's All Barack Obama's Fault"
June 14, 2011 4:46 pm ET filed under Video
GOP Politicians Tout Medicaid Cuts
At the 2011 Faith and Freedom Coalition conference in Washington, D.C., Political Correction asked Republican leaders if they support cuts to Medicaid in order to address the national deficit. Here are their responses:
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.
June 03, 2011 1:24 pm ET filed under Blog
Priebus: Republicans Are "Compromising" By Even Discussing Debt-Limit Increase
May 12, 2011 4:31 pm ET filed under Blog
Priebus: Republicans Are "The Only Ones" Who Are "Serious About Saving Medicare"
April 21, 2011 1:19 pm ET filed under Blog
2012: GOP Voters Enthusiastic About "No One"
April 05, 2011 12:29 pm ET filed under Blog
RNC Chairman Priebus Inflates Number Of Job Losses By More Than 23 Million
March 23, 2011 5:15 pm ET filed under Blog
Reince Priebus Writes The Worst Paragraph You'll Read About Health Care All Day
March 18, 2011 12:54 pm ET filed under Blog
RNC Takes Responsibility For "Socialist" Mistake In Sen. Rubio's Fundraising Letter
March 03, 2011 11:22 am ET filed under Blog
RNC Chairman Priebus Wiggles Around Polling Question
February 25, 2011 12:32 pm ET filed under Blog
RNC Chairman Priebus Wasn't Paying Attention To 2010 Elections
February 22, 2011 4:46 pm ET filed under Blog
RNC Chairman Priebus And Speaker Boehner Cite Flawed Poll On Support For Wisconsin Governor
February 03, 2011 11:58 am ET filed under Blog
New RNC Chief Of Staff Was Behind Ayers Attacks, Palin Shopping Spree
January 14, 2011 5:21 pm ET filed under Fact Check
Who Is Reince Priebus?
Wisconsin Republican Party Chairman Reince Priebus was today elected to succeed Michael Steele as chairman of the Republican National Committee. Despite his age — he's under 40 — Priebus has spent time carving out his place as a Republican politician, running an unsuccessful campaign for Wisconsin state senate in 2004, and, more recently, serving as the RNC's general counsel. He's largely stuck to strictly conservative positions, coming out against gay marriage during the RNC chair debate and suggesting that anyone who favors a woman's right to choose is "not a Republican." Priebus' conservative credentials are mildly tainted by service in a law firm that supports health care reform and worked to channel stimulus funds to clients, but as the RNC chair elections approached his fellow Republicans' biggest criticism was his close ties to Steele.
January 14, 2011 5:21 pm ET filed under Blog
