July 30, 2009
Huge Win! Huge Win!
The headline for today's Denver Post trumpets, "Dems pare health bill's tab." According to the story, the "parties rebellious rank-and-file conservatives" drove a hard bargain and trimmed the cost of the healthcare bill from $1 trillion to a mere $900 billion. Whew! What a victory for fiscal sanity! But wait, it turns out to be an accounting trick because they simply deleted the $245 billion per year increase to Medicare line item (the $100 billion "savings" is over 10 years). Moreover, the party liberals are not happy with these "cuts" and may not support the current bill.
With Blue Dogs like these, who needs Yellow Dogs? They'd better get a package done soon, because The Refugee is about to be sick...
Government Posted by Boulder Refugee at July 30, 2009 12:10 PM
The actual "huge win" part of this story is "the party liberals ... may not support the current bill."
Posted by: johngalt at July 30, 2009 2:13 PMAhem, who was pointing out last November that the Blue Dog is a mythical creature?
""Conservative Democrats" only pretended to be so, in order to win more conservative districts/states. Now they won't have to camouflage their true colors. Their party has the White House with solid control of Congress, a strong position they haven't seen since 1976. On top of that, the American people have been softened up over the last 16 years to the idea that government should and can take of them. We're going to see an attempt to expand the welfare state that's greater than GWB, Nixon and LBJ ever did."
Posted by: Perry Eidelbus at July 30, 2009 10:25 PM | What do you think? [2]