White House Expands On Executive Powers Once Criticized By Obama, No Doubt To The Delight Of The Base

Politifact has been discredited, not just by me but by Ar!anna & others (although I was the first).  I'll give you the benefit of the doubt, that you're just ig.no.rant of it, despite it being posted just about everywhere.

Politifact's way of keeping score is 'misleading' (a kind way of saying deceptive).  Politifact only recognizes 22 broken promises & cuts Obama much slack. 

Politifact has gamed its way of measuring Obama's "promisekeeping"; its categories ('NO ACTION', 'IN THE WORKS', 'STALLED' or 'NOT YET RATED') are misleading. Many a campaign promise or pledge (hundreds of them) has been generously placed in these other categories to languish. 

As Politifact claims, "Once we find action is completed, we rate them 'PROMISE KEPT' 'COMPROMISE' or 'PROMISE BROKEN'". By Politifact's own definition, it enables Obama to keep these issues in limbo for 4 years. Hundreds of issues in limbo for 4 years. 

Then there are the 'memory hole'-promises that Politifact doesn't even cite:


One of many promises Politifact doesn't even list in its "Promises Broken" category Obama's campaign promise to impose 'Windfall Profits Taxes on the Oil & Gas Industry" - Obama immediately reneged on it once in office, saying, "The prices have now dropped - We'll see about doing that if or when they rise again." Oil hit over $80/barrel (the amount that, had Obama kept his promise, the windfall profits tax would have been triggered) months ago. Politifact has conveniently ignored this issue.
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