Michael Steele's political games

	pacquiao -- Last weekend, Republican Rep. Dana Rohrabacher admitted what's been painfully clear for months, saying: "I see a lot of Republicans simply involved in political games." Sadly, he's right -- and when it comes to health reform, there's no one that statement applies to more than Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele. Instead of encouraging his party to work toward reform, Steele's been leading the charge against it with a series of lies and distortions. He's claimed reform would hurt small businesses, cost millions of Americans their insurance, and cut Medicare benefits -- and independent observers have declared each of those claims false. Steele knows that all Americans -- Republicans and Democrats alike -- are dealing with the painful consequences of a broken health care system. But he's siding with Washington elites and insurance companies and playing political games to kill reform -- so we're calling him out. Call 'em Out: Michael Steele. Watch the video, spread the word, make a call. Even though everyone from Sanjay Gupta to AARP and the independent PolitiFact say that claims that reform would cut Medicare benefits or result in rationing are false, Steele's been spreading them for months. And what does the Congressional Budget Office -- the independent arm of Congress that evaluates bills -- think about Steele's claims that reform would increase the deficit and force Americans from their current coverage? CBO analyses refute the RNC chairman's claims on both counts. To top it all off, Michael Steele has claimed that reform would burden small businesses and kill jobs. But the conservative Chamber of Commerce admits business owners support reform, and one small business owner said such a claim is "little more than a purposefully misleading bag of rhetoric that has nothing to do with the real issues facing small businesses." Michael Steele is willing to lie and play political games in order to kill reform that would help Americans of every political party -- so we're calling him out: http://democrats.org/CallOutSteele Thanks for helping us set the record straight about reform, Jen Jen O'Malley Dillon Executive Director Democratic National Committee
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