Sunday, July 25, 2010
The Public Option and the Deficit
A romance that would not be imagined in the wildest of fantasies, the two are now walking hand in hand through the hall of Congress. To support the newest attempt to add a public option to the healthcare options, the Progressive Caucus is tying it firmly to deficit reduction which the opposition has so strongly embraced. At the Netroots Nation, both Reps. Jan Schakowsky and Raul Grijalva spoke out about the CBO projection of a deficit reduction for the public option with Rep. Grijalva issuing the sharpest challenge,
In the wake of the CBO estimates, and amidst a climate of increasing concerns about the national debt, Grijalva charged that any self-styled deficit hawk against the measure is being disingenuous, if not worse.Expect the Republicans to start crying and whining that the Democrats are being mean to them.
"They’re hypocrites," he said of deficit hawks who may not back the program despite the new estimates for cost savings. "Basically, they’re against the public option, period, for philosophical reasons, and the excuse that it was going to be too expensive is phony. They're phonies."
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