Shhh…you hear that?  Listen…

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It’s the silent void from the members of Outrage, Inc. over the announcement that two years in, the 2012-2021 version of Obamacare will already cost nearly twice the originally touted $900 billion of the 2009-2018 version.  With the sunset of the Democratic Congress’s accounting gimmicks set to arrive in just two years, this ten-year rolling cost will only continue to rise.  While a feminist abortion activist (errr… “law student”) launched a weeklong firestorm against the evil advertisers of the Kingpin himself, we took Nancy Pelosi’s advice and found more bad things we don’t like in the “Affordable” Care Act.  Bad things such as: the 2012-2021 cost projection is $1.496 Trillion.  But as the liberal punditocracy will tell us, no sweat!  Didn’t  you hear?  You’re getting a deal!

When the report became public, leftist footsoldiers staggered in confusion while waiting for their marching orders from the punditocracy, but they’ve now regained their footing and found their argument.  The line is now: we KNEW this was coming, and is in fact $50 billion more in deficit reduction.  As Ezra Klein of the Washington Posts headlines: Continue reading →