Politifact: Shills for Obama and House Democrats

Politifact has long described itself as a neutral arbiter of truth in politics but is that true? After today's dust up in which they refused to issue a rating in the claim that Obama ate dog when he was younger I decided to take a deeper look.


Let's start by looking at the Obamater, a handy way to track Obama's campaign promises. It shows 63 promises "broken" 67 "stalled" Looking through that list I noticed something interesting - many of those classified as such are should be rated as "failed" promises. For example

Eliminate all oil and gas tax loopholes - Failed in the Senate multiple times.

Close loopholes in the corporate tax deductibility of CEO pay - No action at all by Obama on this. Broken promise

Lift the payroll tax cap on earnings above $250,000 - No Action, not even a proposal = promise broken

The list goes on. In fact on the first page alone 18 of the 20 listed are actually failed promises. I could go on but the first 3 on page 2 are also actually broken promises so I think it is clear virtually everything listed under "stalled" is actually a broken promise.


Now let's look at how they rate House Republican promises. 5 promises are rated as "stalled" is that true?

Repeal the Healthcare Bill - The House GOP promised to "immediately take action to repeal" and they did. The House voted overwhelmingly to repeal Obamacare. Promise kept.

Increase access to domestic energy sources - The House passed 3 separate bills. Promise Kept

So 2 of the 5 rated as stalled were actually promises kept, 1 I would consider failed (the no earmarks promise), and 2 actually stalled. That brings us to the "In the Works" claim. Of the 14 rated as in the works, 10 are actually promises kept.


Politifact is a joke and nothing more than a shill for Obama and House Democrats.

Good News, Democratic Senate laziest in 20 years.

Sounds like good news to me the fewer laws Congress can pass the better off we all are.

On the passage of public laws, arguably its most important job, the Senate notched just 90, the second lowest in 20 years, and it passed a total of 402 measures, also the second lowest. And as the president has been complaining about, the chamber confirmed a 20-year low of 19,815 judicial and other nominations

It's too bad the Democratic Congress from 09-10 wasn't this lazy.

More good poll news

On top of the recent gallup poll showing Romney ahead of Obama two more polls have recently come out with good news for conservatives.

First up is Wisconsin where PPP(d) has published the results of their recent recall election polling. Those results show Scott Walker with anywhere from a 5%-12% lead over his possible Democratic opponents. Walker also has the best favorable ratings and has a job approval rating above 50%. Unions have already spent millions of dollars to turn public opinion against Walker and his public employee union reforms but it seems that the success of those reforms has helped him weather that storm.

And Rasmussen shows the Generic Congressional Ballot as Republicans 46% Democrats 36%, the highest it's been since March 3rd of last year. This result also nearly matches the average margin between parties at the end of October 2010

If these numbers hold up, and I stress IF as it is only April, then conservatives are in for a very nice election season.

edit: whoops make that a 5-12% lead in wisconsin not 2-12%