John Cornyn Likes It, But Doesn't Wanna Pay For It.

Anyone that thinks today's GOP is serious about fiscal conservatism, you might want to hold your hands over your ears and sing, "I can't hearrr youuuu."

In a brief chat with the Huffington Post on Tuesday, National Republican Senatorial Committee chair John Cornyn (R-Tex.) implicitly acknowledged that Republicans are content with allowing some elements of Obama’s reform into law. And they’d generally ignore those elements when taking the fight to their Democrat opponents as November approaches.

“There is non-controversial stuff here like the preexisting conditions exclusion and those sorts of things,” the Texas Republican said. “Now we are not interested in repealing that. And that is frankly a distraction.”

What the GOP will work to repeal, Cornyn explained, are provisions that result in “tax increases on middle class families,” language that forced “an increase in the premium costs for people who have insurance now” and the “cuts to Medicare” included in the legislation.

John Cornyn wants to keep the preexisting conditions exclusion, labeling it "non-controversial."  Of course, that "non-controversial" item is a big chunk of what makes this bill so expensive.  Dismissing it as "a distraction" while talking about eliminating the necessary taxes and spending cuts in order to fund it is complete nonsense.

Of course, big spending combined with tax cuts is the complete nonsense that got us to this point in the first place.  I'm looking right at ya, W.