Wonk Room » McConnell Stumbles Trying Explain Contradiction Between Repealing Health Law And Lowering Deficit

Mitch McConnell...despite the NON-PARTISAN conclusions of the CBO...refuses to admit that HE IS WRONG on the healthcare law increasing deficits.

I'm all for fighting for a principle...just SAY you disagree with the idea of government-sanctioned healthcare...but I'll be damned if I will abide a slippery politician using LIES to back up his positions. The American people deserve better than that.

Wonk Room » McConnell Stumbles Trying Explain Contradiction Between Repealing Health Law And Lowering Deficit
"The Congressional Budget Office says, the Obama health care bill, for all the policy disagreements that you have with it, reduces the deficit by $143 billion over the next ten years or so. Are those inconsistent?

MCCONNELL: Well, the assumptions are all wrong. The fact of the matter is if you raise taxes in the middle of a recession, the government is going to get less revenue, not more….Nobody seriously believes the health care bill is actually going to save money. Nobody believes that. So don’t assume that you’re going to exacerbate the deficit by doing any of those things."