Roy Attempts Rebuttals

As he notes, Avik Roy is one of Romney's advisers on health care. His rebuttals are not too convincing. The worst, unsurprisingly, is his remarks on Bowles-Simpson. He tries to finesse Ryan's comments into something other than what they actually were. Ryan made it seem as if Obama didn't act on a proposal on his desk. But Ryan (not 'them', 'we'!) and others voted not to put it on Obama's desk. Then Ryan actually says Obama did nothing to try to work on the deficit, but Obama tried many things. It's not his fault if the most dysfunctional Congress in a long time, perhaps ever, didn't create legislation. Roy ignores or downplays these stark facts.