1. "We're taking steps to reign-in the deficit"... read, "I ran the deficit up by an additional $3Trillion in my first 14 months, now I'm raising the shit out of taxes to pay for it".
2. "Rising costs have cut care for older patients"... read, "My healthcare bill pulls $500B out of Medicare that I don't want wasted on elderly people's care... rather that $500B go to some new entitlement to buy me votes".

2. "Rising costs have cut care for older patients"... read, "My healthcare bill pulls $500B out of Medicare that I don't want wasted on elderly people's care... rather that $500B go to some new entitlement to buy me votes".
