Truthiness

Barbara Boxer is so desperate to save her own job – the only job she really cares about – that she has resorted to blatant fabrications and extreme distortions of the truth in a flailing attempt to convince voters to send her back to Washington for another six years. But at a time when 2.2 million Californians are unemployed, voters are fed up with the typical political “truthiness” and empty election-year rhetoric from career politicians like Barbara Boxer.

Facts About “Truthiness”

BARBARA BOXER: “But I’ll be darned if I’m going to go back to where we were before. Sixty-two percent of our people were going broke due to a health care crisis.” (KPCC Senate Debate, 9/29/10)

CHRYON: “The bankruptcy rate for all California residents, not just the uninsured, was 0.7%, not 62%.”

  • California’s Current Bankruptcy Rate Is 0.7%. In 2010, California has had 7.01 bankruptcies per 1,000 residents. (Bankrate Online Network, www.creditcards.com, Accessed 10/24/10)
  • NOTE: In 2009, California’s Bankruptcy Rate Was 0.6%. In 2009, California has had 5.60 bankruptcies per 1,000 residents. (Bankrate Online Network, www.creditcards.com, Accessed 10/24/10)

BARBARA BOXER: “You know, like, I don’t want to go back to the days when thousands of people died every day because they had no insurance.” (KPCC Senate Debate, 9/29/10)

CHRYON: “That’s at least 18 times more than the highest estimated rate.”

  • Boxer’s Statement Assumes A Death Rate Due To Lack Of Health Insurance More Than 18 Times The Highest Estimate. “If true, at least 730,000 people were dying annually in America for lack of health insurance. (To do the math, it’s a minimum of 2,000 deaths every 24 hours multiplied by 365 days.) That’s a staggering number of people who presumably couldn’t get life-saving medical care because they were without an insurance policy to foot the bill. … I mentioned a study that concluded 40,000 people die annually because they aren’t insured. (At least one other study has put the death toll at zero.)” (Fred Barnes, Op-Ed, “The Most Important Race Of 2010,” The Weekly Standard, 10/9/10)

BARBARA BOXER: “$1.2 trillion with the stimulus.” (CNN’s “Situation Room,” 10/14/10)

CNN’s WOLF BLITZER: “There was $1.2 trillion in tax cuts in the stimulus?” (CNN’s “Situation Room,” 10/14/10)

BARBARA BOXER: “There was a lot.” (CNN’s “Situation Room,” 10/14/10)

CHRYON: “The entire stimulus was $814 billion, most of which was government spending.”

  • The Congressional Budget Office Estimates The Cost Of The Stimulus At $814 Billion. “CBO now estimates that ARRA will cost $814 billion from 2009 through 2019.” (Donald Marron, “New Price Tag For Stimulus: $814 Billion,” The Christian Science Monitor Blog, www.csmonitor.com, 8/25/10)
  • The Congressional Budget Office Estimates Reduced Revenues And Refundable Tax Credits Totaling $253 Billion. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that between 2009-2019, as a result of the stimulus bill, revenues will decrease by $180 billion while the government will issue $73 billion in refundable tax credits. (Congressional Budget Office, “The Budget And Economic Outlook: An Update,” www.cbo.gov, 8/10, p. 13)

BARBARA BOXER: “A lot of this was tax cuts. I voted for the largest tax cut in history. Over $1 trillion was in there.” (KGO, Interview With Barbara Boxer, 10/22/10)

CHRYON: “Wrong again.”

CHRYON: “Boxer, 69, makes so many dubious, untrue, hypocritical, or outlandish remarks in a single debate that most of them fly by without registering.” (Fred Barnes, Op-Ed, “The Most Important Race Of 2010,” The Weekly Standard, 10/9/10)

CHRYON: “To get the facts go to www.FailedSenator.com.”