George Pataki: 'Obamacare is One of the Reasons We Have This Deficit'

[Amerigo Vespucci]

George Pataki: 'Obamacare is One of the Reasons We Have This Deficit'

August 26, 2010 12:30 PM

By Heather



As our own Jon Perr recently noted, the Republicans have been doing a lot of lying about the Bush tax cuts and how much they contributed to the deficit while pretending to care about deficit reduction -- Boehner Lies About Bush Tax Cuts and Deficits. Looks like former New York Gov. George Pataki decided to take his turn following in John Boehner's shoes with some revisionist history on MSNBC this morning.

Former Gov. Pataki Absurdly Claims That Heath Care Reform Is ‘One Of The Reasons We Have This Deficit’:

Republicans have been trying very hard to blame President Obama for the nation’s deficit (which he largely inherited from his predecessor), but former Gov. George Pataki (R-NY) today may have gone to the most absurd lengths yet. On MSNBC, Pataki said that the health care reform bill that became law this year is “one of the reasons we have this deficit”:

You just said that Boehner indicated Obamacare as one of the reasons we have this deficit, one of the reasons we have failed to create private sector jobs and he’s absolutely right.

Pataki made no attempt to explain how a law that was passed this year and has yet to be implemented could have possibly caused this year’s deficit. <...>

The Affordable Care Act not only adds nothing to the deficit this year, but is entirely deficit neutral. As Igor Volsky pointed out earlier, the Congressional Budget Office released a letter this week stating that the Affordable Care Act “will produce $143 billion in net budgetary savings over the 2010-2019 period.” Repealing the parts of the law that Republicans love to gripe about would cause an increase in deficits of $455 billion. Let’s repeat: repealing health care reform would increase, not decrease, the deficit.

Of course we got no push back from MSNBC's Chris Jansing. Can we get Cenk hired for her spot please?

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[aquart]

1. Okay, this one was never known for his brains.

He was a good little soldier for D'Amato's machine, though.

[butterfly77]

2. I have noticed that since..

Obama became President,this ass and most of the other wimps like Ari Fleischer and Andy Card have a lot of mouth about everything..

[Angry Dragon]

3. What an ignorant old white man

No money has been spent on it as yet, but it has become
so expensive. I wonder how some people talk out of their mouthes
and it smells and looks like shit
Just wondering

[ladjf]

4. Bull S. nt

[babylonsister]

5. Full of hot air, signifying absolutely nothing. nt

[Anakin Skywalker]

6. No, You Turd! This Deficit Was Trickle Down Legacy by Bush/Cheney Inc.

"Trickle down", a favorite term of Reaganites.

Yeah, something did trickle down, all right. Trickle down debt!

[DinahMoeHum]

7. Pataki may have beaten Andrew Cuomo's dad way back then. . .

but come January 1, 2011, his "legacy" will be non-existent.

:kick:

[madrchsod]

8. i`d say old pataki is one dumb son of a bitch...

well i guess that`s a given is`t it.

[jwirr]

9. The program is only just begun. The deficit is much older than the

health care plan. These people have no sense of timing. Most of the deficit was there before 2008.

[Bitwit1234]

10. Gee the Health Care Bill hasn't been implemented yet

and IT IS they cause of the deficit. Damn maybe the next thing it will be responsible for is the Iraqi and Afgan War, that would sure let Bush off the hook.

[liberal N proud]

11. They get on the air with these lies and no one challenges them

It is a fucking crime what the right wing is doing to this nation.

They are set on total destruction of the United States.


:nuke:

[Historic NY]

12. George Pataki is the BIG reason New York is so f'ed up.

[Stinky The Clown]

13. George Pataki makes Gulie Rudiani appear actually heroic

George Pataki would be a better man if only he could advance to moron.

[HuckleB]

14. ROTFLMAO!

Except that many ijits will believe it and repeat it!

UGH!