A CBS News/NY Times survey shows that–despite the tax rebates and cuts which were part of his recovery package–34 percent of respondents think that President Obama “raised” their taxes last year.

My hats off to the Rabid Right. They have taken to heart the comment by Hitler’s propaganda chief, Joseph Goebbels, that if you tell a lie often enough, it becomes the truth.

Here’s another myth from the Rabid Right: California has the largest bureaucracy of any state in the nation.

Here are the FACTS: In 2008, California ranked 48th out of the 50 states with respect to the number of state workers per 10,000 residents.

And where is most of the state employment growth? In the 20 years ending in 2008, employment in the state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation grew more than 123 percent and accounted for nearly one-third of all state job growth.