This is encouraging (seriously).

What is also encouraging to me is hearing Rahmbo on NPR calling out the GOP on their hypocrisy. Boner, McConnell, and co. certainly didn't have any problems when Tom Delay added to the federal deficit a few years ago. Why don't more of Obama's surrogates point this out in the media?

From TPM home:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106946745

"We're not just running it up on the credit card, which is how they did the prescription drug bill," he said, referring to the passage of a bill in 2003 under a Republican-controlled Congress that added a prescription drug benefit to Medicare.

"They charged it, which is a $900 billion charge," he said. "And nobody paid for it."

This is encouraging.

I think lbierals make a mistake if they turn all chicken little and decalre the effort "doomed".

Nothing is over until it's over.

And we can all give these bastards hell during August.

It's amazing what concerted political pressure can do sometimes.

Plus, opponents are actual divided, their views are all over the map. Walmart likes employer mandates, for instance. The National Chamber of Commerce is opposed, but some local ones are sitting this one out. So we'll see how "formidable" the opponents August campaign really is. My guess is if these clowns had 1) a solid argument or 2) enough money and support to torpedo this thing in August, they would done so by now anyway.

Yet, I still haven't heard any coherent argument against Obama's claims that the status quo will double our hc costs in ten years.

I guarentee you whatever his committee comes up with is going to produce a ton of rightous outrage. How conveeeenient that he'll be out of town when the outrage train comes rolling in to his office.