Call this post reason #578,091 why Senator Tom Carper is not a progressive. As if a proud member of the DLC could be. Senator Carper tells WHYY:
Delaware’s senior Senator Tom Carper (D) says Lieberman’s main concern making sure “we don’t balloon or swell the deficit, the nation’s debt further by what we do with respect to a public option.” Carper calls that a reasonable concern.
How is this a reasonable concern in light of the fact that this bill is completely paid for? And both Houses worked pretty hard to make sure it is paid for? And I’ll point out that neither Carper or Lieberman objected to the costs of the BushCo tax cuts, the costs of the Afghanistan or Iraq Wars or even the “War on Terror”, or Medicare Part D — NOT ONE OF THEM WAS PAID FOR. And the combination of these make up the biggest portion of the structural deficit.
Carper is no dummy here and it suits him to feed to untrue wingnut talking point that there is something here that increases the deficit. Because he too is hellbent on eliminating the Public Option and if that takes embracing the lies, apparently this works for him.