Not Surprisingly

clipped from realclearpolitics.blogs.time.com Bob Herbert made a rather astonishing admission about President Obama's health care plan in his column on Saturday: The president also said, as he estimated the cost of his proposal at $900 billion over 10 years, that he “will not sign a plan that adds one dime to our deficits — either now or in the future.” I'm sure he means it. But I have not spoken to anyone, either on Capitol Hill or elsewhere, who believes that is doable. (emphasis added) So Obama's assertion he can expand coverage and care without adding a dime to the deficit over the next ten years is, by the admission of even one of his most ardent supporters,  a claim that virtually no one believes. Generically speaking, when someone makes a claim that no one believes it's characterized as a lie. This brings to mind an episode not so long ago when another President made a claim which, by all accounts, he really believed to be true. Not surprisingly, one of the loudest and most shrill of those voices was Bob Herbert