Scheiber: Romney’s Claim About My Book Is ‘False’

[kpete]

Scheiber: Romney’s Claim About My Book Is ‘False’

The author of a book documenting the White House’s policy making strategy, cited multiple times by GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney, says the former Massachusetts governor is using the book to dishonestly accuse President Obama of intentionally harming the economy.

“That is false, in a variety of ways. I don’t believe that it’s substantively true,” Noam Scheiber, author of The Escape Artists, told TPM by phone Thursday morning.

On Wednesday Romney said President Obama and his aides believed the health care reform law would harm the recovery but pushed for it anyway, and sourced the argument to Scheiber’s book. But the claim is not true.

“There are a couple of claims wound up together there in Romney’s remarks,” Scheiber said. “One claim is that Obama’s team knew that the Affordable Care Act itself — something about the Act — would derail the recovery…. They do not believe that it’s substantively true. So it’s not something that they felt, and it’s not something I argue in the book.”

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[BlueCaliDem]

1. It doesn't matter if it's true or not, just as long as it's propagated by corporate media.

Then it becomes truth.

This is what Progressives need to do, too. Hurl all kinds of crap out there and let the Republicans sort it out. Just make sure it makes headlines.

[JDPriestly]

2. Romney either didn't really read the book or does not comprehend what he reads.

Either way, he would be an awful president -- another Bush.

Misquoting a book is not presidential.

[Bolo Boffin]

3. So the ACA "harmed the economy" because the Obama team couldn't do more stimulus.

Scheiber thought as many do that the Obama Administration should have pushed for more stimulus. The protracted battle over the ACA left no capital or time for more stimulus. That's the only "ACA harmed the economy" argument that could conceivably be made from the book.

Yet Romney still makes the argument, knowing full well that the way President Obama would have been able to help the economy was more stimulus spending, something he and his GOP echo chamber are dead set against!

It takes talent to lie like this Romney fucker does. It takes dedication to the craft.