Ezra Klein: Repealing healthcare reform would cost hundreds of billions of dollars --Cantor knows it

[flpoljunkie]

Repealing health-care reform would cost hundreds of billions of dollars -- and Eric Cantor knows it
By Ezra Klein

House Republicans are in a pickle: One of their new rules says that new legislation must be paid for. But the health-care bill reduces the federal deficit by more than $100 billion over the next 10 years. Luckily, they've figured out an answer to their problem: They've decided to simply exempt the repeal bill from the rules. That means they're beginning the 112th Congress by lifting their own rules in order to take a vote that will increase the deficit. Change we can believe in, and all that.

Republicans are aware that this looks, well, horrible. So they're trying to explain why their decision to lift the rule requiring fiscal responsibility is actually fiscally responsible. Majority Leader Eric Cantor got asked about this, and he returned the reporter's serve with a volley of nonsense. "About the budget implications, I think most people understand that the CBO did the job it was asked to do by the then-Democrat majority, and it was really comparing apples to oranges,” Cantor said. “It talked about 10 years' worth of tax hikes and six years' worth of benefits. Everyone knows beyond the 10-year window, this bill has the potential to bankrupt this federal government as well as the states."

That's all well and good -- but it's not true. Take Cantor's core point: The health-care reform bill includes "10 years' worth of tax hikes and six years' worth of benefits." There's nothing philosophical about this statement. It can be checked with a simple look at the spending tables the Congressional Budget Office published in their analysis of the bill. And when you look at those tables, Cantor's statement falls apart:



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http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2011/01/repealing_health-care_reform_w.html

[Proud Liberal Dem]

1. So

Is Cantor suggesting that the non-partisan CBO is actually partisan/favorable to to Democrats?
:wtf:

[flpoljunkie]

2. Indeed, he is.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

3. I'd say that he should have to provide evidence of this lack of neutrality

However, unfortunately, I know damned well that nobody is going to make him cough it up and the lie has been cast as the truth. :puke: :banghead:

[jenmito]

4. EVERY TIME a news anchor points this out to Repubs., they just say they don't believe it

and they continue on with their lies. Same with polls showing the majority does NOT want healthcare repealed-they just say they don't believe the polls, that they see "other" polls that say otherwise, etc. It's unbelievable how they ALL deny the facts and continue with THEIR "facts."