Deficit Hawks

As [Obama] told Congress during his address in February, “Put simply, our health care problem is our deficit problem. Nothing else even comes close. Nothing else.”

While Googling for "Cinn-a-Bun-scented chloroform," the UG has accidentally posted a quote from Ezra Klein on the lack of understanding about the effect healthcare reform would have on the deficit.

For all the effort Democrats put into building a health-care bill that cuts the deficit, a full 60 percent of Americans think (pdf) the legislation increases the deficit. Only 15 percent think it’s a deficit reducer.

Rhetoric always trumps numbers. And for some reason, the president seems to be surprisingly somewhat inept at spelling out simple things. Meanwhile, it's very easy for deficit faux-hawks (faux deficit hawks?) to scare people into not wanting to see that 2 + 2 = 4, but that 2 + 2 = America kicks ass because God says so. Rinse, lather repeat.