Republicans reject report on cost of health care repeal

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By Amy Goldstein
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, January 6, 2011; 10:29 PM

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/06/AR2011010606159.html?hpid=topnews

Rescinding the federal law to overhaul the health-care system, the first objective of House Republicans who ascended to power this week, would ratchet up the federal deficit by about $230 billion over the next decade and leave 32 million more Americans uninsured, according to congressional budget analysts.


So there it is. Hypocrisy, thy name is Republican.

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1. Like all ignorant people, if a FACT challenges their BELIEF, they reject the

FACT. There's a clinical diagnosis for this kind of mental illness. I don't know what it is, but it sure is epidemic among repukes.

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2. Facts are something to cry over

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3. Fortunately, though, the writer offers any number of excuses

Instead of talking about the screaming hypocrisy of it all, Goldstein calls the Republican tactic "brute force politics," and quotes Boehner uncritically when he dismisses the nonpartisan CBO report out of hand. Instead, she extols the aesthetics of the Republican counter-report, without ever quite getting into what it says, or what methodology it uses to support Republican rhetoric.

To her credit, right at the end, Goldstein does touch on the question of whether Boehner is just jerking off and wasting a lot of time and money. Boehner, of course, gets the last unchallenged word, "No."

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4. Well, if they weren't providing a reach around for the Republicans

it really wouldn't be American media.

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5. It's okay for republicants to waste money.

It's their job and what they do best.