Response issued to "misleading" Crossroads attacks against Obama Administration, McCaskill

Progress Missouri, a Democratic organization, has issued a response to ads released today by Karl Rove's Crossroads group attacking the Obama Administration and Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo. From the news release:

Crossroads GPS has a new ad in Missouri with misleading claims about the Recovery Act and Affordable Care Act. You're shocked (shocked!) that Karl Rove's Crossroads outfit isn't shooting straight, I know.

A few of the lowlights....

The ad incorrectly claims that the Recovery Act was a failure.

•Independent experts agree that Obama's economic policies kept unemployment from shooting up to 12% or higher. We still have a long road back, but under the Obama administration Americans created jobs for 15 straight months.

•While Republicans publicly accuse President Obama of not doing enough to create jobs, they have backed proposals to eliminate nearly 7 million jobs this year.

•Right-wing politicians say we need to give more money to the millionaires and big corporations and wait for the benefits to trickle down - but right now corporations are sitting on record profits, and they're not spending it to create jobs.

•We tried it the conservatives' way -- the Bush tax cuts created record deficits and were followed by the slowest job growth since World War II.

•By a 4-to-1 margin, voters want leaders to focus on jobs and the economy over long-term budget deficits.

The Affordable Care Act will reduce the federal deficit.
•Repealing health care reform would increase the deficit by $210 billion over 10 years, the Congressional Budget Office said in February.

•When the ACA was enacted, the CBO estimated that the law would shave$124 billion from the deficit.

•The New England Journal Of Medicine wrote last year that the ACA phases out "substantial overpayments" to Medicare Advantage plans. "A phased elimination of the substantial overpayments to Medicare Advantage plans, which now enroll nearly 25% of Medicare beneficiaries, will produce an estimated $132 billion in savings over 10 years."

And let's get real: Part of the reason debt is up is that President Bush left a $1.2 TRILLION deficit for 2009 behind him.

For more information on claims in this ad and Crossroads' long history of misleading the American public, check out:
•http://politicalcorrection.org/adcheck/201106270008
•http://mediamatters.org/research/201107050015
•http://politicalcorrection.org/adcheck/201011010010