Andrew Sullivan nails Glenn Reynolds’ hackery on the Obama healthcare plan:
[Reynolds] must know that the huge deficits projected in the future have virtually nothing to do with Obama’s proposals on healthcare or energy. They are a function of inherited entitlement spending, the legacy of two open-ended wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the revenue lost from the current depression (and the last). All of this was inherited by Obama…
Someone tell Scarborough about this, too. Just about once and hour, Scarborough tells his panel of sycophants that the president wants to further deepen the national debt with his healthcare plan. Which, naturally, is utter bullshit.
As Ezra and Yglesias have been reporting recently, the CBO’s deficit projections are only factors if nothing is done about Medicare and other spending.
