Obama's latest health-care lie

There are actually multiple lies and deceptions in this paragraph, beginning with the verb “reports” to describe what the Congressional Budget Office does. The CBO, as Peter Suderman documented in his foundational Reason feature on the organization, does not “report,” it “projects,” in highly speculative fashion, what a proposed piece of legislation may cost. What’s more, as Suderman detailed in a more recent piece that every American should read before listening to a word the president says, the CBO is bound in its “scoring” to take at face value what every living politician–Obama included–knows to be a stinking lie. That is, Congress’ promises to make hundreds of billions of dollars worth of unspecified future spending “cuts.”…

Finally, as Suderman again has tirelessly pointed out, cutting the deficit is not the same as spending less, contra Obama’s formulation here. Why, it’s almost as if you could write something every day about the president’s health care mendacity!