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struggle4progress Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-04-09 05:57 PM
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PolitiFact: In recent statement, Bachmann's pants are 'on fire'
By Baird Helgeson

U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann told Sean Hannity on his Fox News Channel show last month that the House health care bill prohibits people from buying private health insurance after a certain date ...

Here's what the political fact-checking wing of the St. Petersburg Times concluded after it investigated her statement:

"Bachmann isn't just guilty of misinterpreting the language from one page of the bill. She's taken that misinterpretation to a ridiculous extreme -- the claim that no private insurance could be sold after a certain date," PolitiFact states. "That ignores the central tenet of a plan that's been discussed for months -- that the plan would rely on a marketplace of private insurance."

PolitiFact's reporters and editors devised six classifications for statements they review, ranging from true to false to "pants on fire" ...

http://www.startribune.com/blogs/68974067.html
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Angry Dragon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-04-09 06:21 PM
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1. Perhaps.....
pants on fire gives one hot pants. From this one might assume she has hot pants for Her boyfriends Rush, Glenn, and Sean. That would be the the standard family value way.
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HelenWheels Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-04-09 06:46 PM
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2. Good looking
Her looks are what keeps Bachmann in office. It's sure not her brains.
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opihimoimoi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-14-09 05:54 PM
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3. She got fried eggs and is not good looking...passable but no queen level
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