Calling the deficit-hawks' bluff

By Creature

Lynn Woolsey on her re-introduction of the public option:

"There is all this concern about the deficit," said Rep. Lynn Woolsey (D-Petaluma), a leading champion of the proposal. "Well, guess what: This would reduce the deficit because it saves so much money."

The public option always made sense, but no one seemed to care about sense when there was an industry to subsidize.