Gosh, $1.2Trillion? Really? I Guess We'll Have To Cut It...

The White House is owning up to the fact that the prescription drug benefit program will cost, not in the neighborhood of $300B as they put out during its debate; not over $500B, a number they fired an Admin official for putting out after the debate, but

$1.2Trillion dollars.

You can just faintly hear the Starve-The-Beast economists in the West Wing: Gosh, it's THAT expensive? I guess we'll just have to cut the program.

Dig that: get credit for starting a costly benefit program with the voters you need to re-elect you, but still get your ideology for cutting the program after you're re-elected -- not to mention for killing the drug program in medicare that the new program replaced.

Oh, and the elderly lose too.