CBS’s Pelley Upset House’s ObamaCare Repeal Votes Have ‘Cost Taxpayers’ $50 Million
By Brent Baker
NewsBusters
July 12, 2012 | 03:42
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/brent-baker/2012/07/12/cbs-s-pelley-upset-house-s-obamacare-repeal-votes-have-cost-taxpayers-5
Showing a renewed concern for the interests of taxpayers, CBS put “Cost to Taxpayers” on screen Wednesday night as CBS Evening News anchor Scott Pelley worried not about the cost of ObamaCare, but “how much it cost taxpayers for the House to repeal the law again and again?” Pelley relayed how “the Congressional Research Service tells us that the House of Representatives costs us $24 million a week. So with two weeks spent repealing the law, that comes to a little under $50 million.”
What a meaningless point. As if that $50 million wouldn’t have been spent in any event since the cost of operating the House would not have disappeared from federal outlays if the body dealt with other issues. [Yeah, morons like Pelley aren't smart enough to figure out that this isn't $50 million of additional costs that wouldn't have been incurred, otherwise. 
And, no one can say that this time could have been put to better use because: (1) the majority of Americans want Obamacare repealed, and (2) no matter what legislation comes out of the House, the Obstructionist-in-Chief, Harry Reid, won't allow it to be considered in the Senate, anyway! B.]
The Republican-controlled House voted 244-185 to repeal ObamaCare, leading Pelley to frame a story: “With so much urgent business before the House, why spend so much time voting to repeal the law over and over again?”
Reporter Nancy Cordes soon complained: “It is the 33rd vote to repeal all or part of the President’s health care law, a Republican effort that, according to a CBS News tally, has taken up at least 80 hours on the House floor. That’s two full work weeks since early 2011.”
She demanded of House Majority Leader Eric Cantor: “You’ve held something like 33 votes already about repealing the President’s health care law. Haven’t you made your point already? Why keep holding these votes, keep conducting these debates?”
Following her piece, Pelley ruminated:
We wondered how much it cost taxpayers for the House to repeal the law again and again?. You can’t be exact about these things, but the Congressional Research Service tells us that the House of Representatives costs us $24 million a week. So with two weeks spent repealing the law, that comes to a little under $50 million.
Pelley assumed the anchor seat after ObamaCare passed, but the House of Representatives spent a lot more than two weeks debating it in 2009 and 2010 and I don’t recall CBS fretting then over the cost of the time spent on it.
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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