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Debating the President’s Portsmouth pitch (part 6)

Continuing with the series, here is the President talking about health care reform in Portsmouth, New Hampshire:

THE PRESIDENT: And we will do this without adding to our deficit over the next decade, largely by…

Misreading the economy

Here’s Vice President Biden yesterday on This Week with George Stephanopolous:

STEPHANOPOULOS: While we’ve been here, some pretty grim job numbers back at home — 9.5 percent unemployment in June, the worst numbers in 26 years.

CBO scores the Kennedy-Dodd bill

The Congressional Budget Office has released a preliminary estimate (“score”) of the draft Kennedy-Dodd health care bill.Some in the press are reporting that this is a “$1 trillion bill.” This poorly explains the true budgetary impact of the bill for several reasons. The…