Frankly, I’m surprised they’re still in the bill now. Rightly or wrongly, it would be a perfectly reasonable assumption on the part of any Congressman who attended or watched the “town hall meetings” that the majority of the anger directed at the health care bill is directed at the proposed Medicare cuts and nothing else.
That’s why the “town hallers” didn’t really give me a good deal of hope. Judging by a lot of the questions and comments at those meetings, at least a sizeable minority of the opponents of this bill would have no problem with multi-trillion dollar deficits so long as their own benefits were safe.