GOP Thought Leader on Obama “Stay in School” Speech

“Thinking about my kids in school having to listen to that just really upsets me... I'm an American. They are Americans, and I don't feel that's OK. I feel very scared to be in this country with our leadership right now.”

(Shanneen Barron, grief-stricken, as quoted here: http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/09/04/obama.schools/)

Greer "Misinterprets" Obama Stay-in-School Speech

“The address scheduled for September 8, 2009, does not allow for healthy debate on the President's agenda, but rather obligates the youngest children in our public school system to agree with our President's initiatives or be ostracized by their teachers and classmates.”

(Florida GOP Chairman Jim Greer, as quoted in the 9/1/09 RPOF press release found here: http://www.rpof.org/article.php?id=754)

Blackwood Circulates Debunked Chain Email

“Folks, while going over some emails in the office, I came some interesting information on the Democrats' big health care bill, H.R. 3200, America 's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009. While this is federal legislation and not state, the topic is of enough significance that I thought many of you would be interested in reading it. Please find below page references and direct quotes from the proposed bill.”

(North Carolina Rep. Curtis Blackwood, in his 7/30/09 newsletter, referencing the chain email debunked here: http://factcheck.org/2009/08/twenty-six-lies-about-hr-3200/)

Hannity Spreads 2nd Cash for Clunkers Myth

“The Obama administration has done a lot of bragging about the success of the ‘cash for clunkers’ program — the government program that allowed Americans to trade in their so-called gas guzzling cars for a $4,500 cash rebate… Well, what team Obama forgot to mention was that those $4,500 dolled out by Uncle Sam will also be taxed by Uncle Sam as regular income!”

(Sean Hannity, 8/28/09, as reported in Hannity’s America here: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,543981,00.html )

RNC on Health Care Discrimination

“It has been suggested that the government could use voter registration to determine a person's political affiliation, prompting fears that GOP voters might be discriminated against for medical treatment in a Democrat-imposed health care rationing system.”

(Republican National Committee's "Future of American Health Care" survey, August 2009)

Delusions of Death Panels

“The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama's ‘death panel’ so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their ‘level of productivity in society,’ whether they are worthy of health care.”

(Sarah Palin, 8/7/09, as recorded here: http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=113851103434)

Limbaugh on Why Democrats are Nazis

“Obama's got a health care logo that's right out of Adolf Hitler's playbook. Now what are the similarities between the Democrat Party of today and the Nazi party in Germany? Well, the Nazis were against big business. They hated big business and, of course, we all know that they were opposed to Jewish capitalism. They were insanely, irrationally against pollution. They were for two years mandatory voluntary service to Germany. They had a whole bunch of make-work projects to keep people working one of which was the Autobahn.”

(Rush Limbaugh; rambling excerpt from 8/6/09 transcript of The Rush Limbaugh Show found here: http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_080609/content/01125106.guest.html)