Here's a stunning surprise. Lefty pundit Jonathon Chait says Mitt Romney is a liar.
Here’s Romney’s incredibly false account:
A book that was written in a way that’s apparently pro-President Obama, was written by a guy named Noam Scheiber and in this book he says that there was a discussion about the fact that Obamacare would slow down the economic recovery in this country and they knew that before they passed it. But they concluded that we would all forget how long the recovery took once it had happened, so they decided to go ahead. The idea that they knowingly slowed down our recovery in order to put in place Obamacare, which they wanted and they considered historic but the American people did not want or consider historic, is something which I think deserves a lot of explaining …
The lies. Let us tote them up.
First, and most importantly, at no point did anybody in the Obama administration ever believe that passing the Affordable Care Act would “slow down the recovery.”
Looking at this from another perspective, at least Romney gives Obama credit for knowing what a lot of other people recognized: ObamaCare would be a drag on the economy. By calling out Romney, Chait unwittingly acknowledges that Obama was, and still is, utterly without a clue.
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