This video proves that DNC Chairman Tim Kaine didn’t help Democrats by appearing on This Week With George Stephanopoulos:

Stephanopoulos: Alot of Republicans I’ve talked with say that this will be a Pyrrhic victory for the Democrats, that what you have here is $400,000,000,000 in tax hikes, $400,000,000,000 in Medicare cuts and that’s gonna spark a backlash against Democrats at the polls next year.
KAINE: George, of course Republicans are saying that. They’ve been trying to block this all year. They’ve said that they want to beat health care to break the President but there’s no denying that this was a historic passage last night on an issue that President Teddy Roosevelt, a Republican, started a hundred years ago…What this bill does is it provides security for the four-fifths of Americans who have health insurance so that they can’t get abused, really, by the predatory insurance company practices, provides a path to affordable for uninsured citizens for the first time in history of this country and it does significant work to start to break the unsustainable growth in health care costs that is breaking the bank for families and small businesses. We think this was a big and historic win, ending the week in a big way.

That’s spin of the vilest sort. The Democrats’ bill piles hundreds of billions of dollars of new taxes on the middle class, on small businesses, including medical device manufacturers, and putting in place for the first time in history mandates on individual and small businesses. I’d dearly love to hear Gov. Kaine explain, without the outright fabrications, how those things will “break the unsustainable growth in health care costs.”

Does Gov. Kaine simply expect the device manufacturers to eat the cost of the manufacturers’ tax? Do Democrats think that these mandates will lower health care costs? If they think that, why do they think that?

I won’t suggest that you watch the video, especially if you have high blood pressure or if you demand that politicians tell the truth. If you do watch it, just be prepared for tons of outright fabrications and insults to your intelligence.

This interview isn’t helping the Democrats’ credibility. It’s doing quite the opposite actually. I can’t wait until the video is made using the CBO debunking each of Gov. Kaine’s claims. I can’t wait to see that video includ the CBO arguing on the Republicans’ behalf that their legislation actually reduces insurance premiums, offers legitimate deficit reduction without gimmicks, doesn’t raise taxes, doesn’t cut Medicare and that doesn’t impose unfunded mandates on states thorugh Medicaid.

Let’s see Gov. Kaine argue those FACTS without lying through his teeth. Kaine is a mental midget. Gov. Kaine’s lack of integrity isn’t appealing, either. It won’t do the Democrats much good to have a DNC chairman who’s lacking in both gravitas and integrity. Democrats are stuck with this mental midget just like they’re stuck with defending Pelosi’s indefensible health desctruction legislation.

See you next November.

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Cross-posted at California Conservative