Rich Scott is a crook,when he was CEO of HCA the worse hospital chain in the USA he with help from republican bill frist who owns HCA stoled $1.7 Billion Dollars from medicare and medicaid and the Government make them pay it back,scott is a crook.
Karl Rove is an example of the Republican right-wing approach of using "Big Lies" to achieve their goals. And the louder and longer the lie campaign continues, the more people will start to believe the lies.
The Republicans running for the Presidency are trying to show you that they are running against President Obama, but the Obama they paint for you to dislike is "an imaginary Obama." They have conjured up an Obama who does not exist. Their Obama is their "Imaginary Opponent," much like a 3-year-old child with an imaginary friend.
Because the Republicans are such masters of the Big Lie , they are using it again in this election season. They are accusing Obama of things Bush did years before Obama took office. Then the Republicans got their chance to rebut the President's State of the Union Address.. And Mitch Daniels was perfect in his ability to lie to the public, his ability to provide misdirection, and his ability to rewrite history" all with a straight face. Mitch Daniels' entire speech was the factual opposite of the speech President Obama gave.
Some of the brazen falsehoods offered up by the candidates who remain standing today.
Mitt Romney wrote a book called "No Apology," and has repeatedly said on the campaign trail that Obama took a world tour at the beginning of his presidency to issue mea culpas to dastardly foreigners everywhere. This lie is so brazen not only because it never happened, but also because Romney uses the talking-point in speech after speech.
As James Taub noted in the New York Times, "In a major speech in Cairo in 2005, Condoleezza Rice, then Mr. Bush's secretary of state, said that "for 60 years, my country, the United States, pursued stability at the expense of democracy in this region here in the Middle East - and we achieved neither."
During a January 16 debate, Mitt Romney said of Obama, "Three years into office, he doesn't have a jobs plan." As the AP notes, "Like them or not, Obama has proposed several plans intended to spur the economy and create jobs." As the AP notes ... In September, Obama introduced his most recent jobs plan, rolling it out in a speech to the full Congress in which he urged Congress to "pass it right away." It included $450 billion in tax cuts and new spending, including greater cuts to payroll taxes and tax breaks for companies that hire those who've been out of work for six months or more. Almost none of it has been passed into law.
What Romney said in a conference call with Ralph Reed's Faith and Freedom Coalition: "Then of course there's the assault on religion. Now Obama has gone forward and said that religious institutions, universities, hospitals and so forth, religious institutions have to provide free contraceptives to all their employees, even if that religious institution is opposed to the use of contraception, as in the case of the Catholic Church. It's an assault on religion unlike anything we have seen. There's been an assault on marriage. I think Obama is very aggressively trying to pave the path to same-sex marriage."
First, Obama himself doesn't favor gay marriage nor supports DOMA. Second, as Igor Volsky (who reported Romney's comments for Think Progress) notes, "Federal regulations contain clear provisions in three separate laws shielding federally funded healthcare providers' right of conscience."
The 1976 Church Amendment "prevents the government, as a condition of a federal grant, from requiring healthcare providers or institutions to perform or assist in abortion or sterilization procedures against their moral or religious convictions
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