Conservatism is looking more and more like a mental illness. The IRS Myth Being Spread by Tea baggers/right-wing Republicans:
Q: Will the IRS hire 16,500 new agents to enforce the health care law?
A: No. The law requires the IRS mostly to hand out tax credits, not collect penalties. The claim of 16,500 new agents stems from a partisan analysis based on guesswork and false assumptions, and compounded by outright misrepresentation.
The four best lies about the new health care law.
Microchip in your brain! "The Obama health care bill under Sec. 2521, page 1,000 will establish a National Medical Device Registry," one reader posted March 25 on the Chattanoogan.com. The reader then went on to quote legislative language, from pages, 1,001 to 1,008 of the bill that made reference to "a class II device that is implantable, life-supporting, or life-sustaining." This device, the reader explained, is an "implantable radiofrequency transponder system for patient identification and health information." Lest you think this is just the ravings of one solitary commenter, be advised that the phrase "health care reform microchip" returns 55,500 results on Google.There will also not be any $7 billion dollars spent on Jungle Gyms or forced inoculations.
Like McCaughey, the new Obamacare conspiracy-mongers strive for verisimilitude by citing precise bill sections and page numbers. But in truth the phrases National Medical Device Registry and Class II device appear nowhere in either the health care bill nor in the follow-up reconciliation bill .
TIMELINE: From Promoting Acid Rain To Climate Denial, Over 20 Years Of Right-wing Republican David Koch’s Polluter Front Groups
The founder and chairman of Americans for Prosperity is oil baron David Koch, who is one of the richest men in the world because of his oil, chemicals, and manufacturing conglomerate Koch Industries. Koch Industries is a major polluter with an atrocious record of sloppy operations. According to the EPA, Koch Industries is responsible for over 300 oil spills in the US and has leaked three million gallons of crude oil into fisheries and drinking waters. They were fined a record $35 million dollars and an additional $8 million in Minnesota for discharging into streams. But AFP’s recent crusade against the EPA is just the latest in Koch’s twenty-year campaign to have unrestricted power to pollute. Some highlights of the timeline:America doesn't have enough problems trying to repair the damage of eight years of Conservatives policies so by all means vote Republican in 2012 - Republicans feel there is a lot more damage they can do given the chance.
– David Koch pioneered front groups focused on organizing grassroots opposition to environmental regulations, opposition to climate science. Koch’s flagship organization, Citizens for a Sound Economy, now known as Americans for Prosperity, orchestrated everything from anti-tax protests aimed at opposing President Clinton to the current tea party movement aimed at President Obama.
– The same tactics Koch-funded groups are now using against clean energy reform were employed during the 1990’s against (highly successful) acid rain regulations, other EPA rules against pollution. In the field, Koch’s groups would use conspiracy theories to whip up right-wing hysteria against regulations, while other Koch groups would directly lobby, produce academic reports, and pay for advertisements.
– Koch helped anti-environment Republicans win policy battles and congressional elections in the 1990’s, elect Bush in 2000 and 2004. And how the Bush administration rewarded Koch by adopting his pro-pollution ideas and appointing his operatives to key positions. Koch is the most singular force for the rampant anti-environment, anti-climate science strain popular among the American right, which stands in contrast to conservative parties in Europe and the rest of the world which recognize the threat of manmade climate change.
