Republicans Are Given a Price Tag for Health Law Repeal, but Reject It

so, how is it that repugs get to choose what reality we all live in????



WASHINGTON — The nonpartisan budget scorekeepers in Congress said on Thursday that the Republican plan to repeal President Obama’s health care law would add $230 billion to federal budget deficits over the next decade, intensifying the first legislative fight of the new session and highlighting the challenge Republicans face in pursuing their agenda.

The new House speaker, John A. Boehner, flatly rejected the report, saying it was based largely on chicanery by Democrats.

Mr. Boehner’s dismissal of the report by the Congressional Budget Office, at his first formal news conference as speaker, was the latest salvo in the battle over the health care law. White House officials on Thursday said they were stepping up efforts to defend the law, with a new rapid-response operation to rebut Republican claims and to deploy supporters to talk about the benefits of the law.

But Mr. Boehner’s remarks held wider implications, effectively putting him on a war footing with the independent analysts whose calculations generally guide discussions about the projected cost or savings of any legislation.

“I do not believe that repealing the job-killing health care law will increase the deficit,” he said.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/07/us/politics/07cong.html?_r=1&hpw=&pagewanted=print

The problem is the media will report what boner said...but then conveniently not include that he's wrong.

Expect more of the same.

Who the hell cares about pay-go if you can just reject the CBO's estimates?