U.S. Senators Jim Demint and Lindsey Graham both appeared Sunday on national political talk shows to argue the Republican case against the new health care law. Graham on “Meet the Press” accused the passage process of being “the worst of Washington and it was not transparent.” Graham warns, “We’re going to have a spirited civil contest about the size and shape of government and health care will be center stage.”

Graham said, “There’s a reason no Republican voted for this thing. It’s not that we don’t care about people and we don’t want to lower costs. This lost its focus. It got to ‘There’s a noble effort started by the president,’ then it got to be, ‘I got to pass the bill because my presidency’s at stake.’ This idea it reduces the deficit is a flat-out lie. You don’t include the money we’re going to spend to fix the doctor problem, which is $200 billion. So they took it out of the health care bill and put it in the jobs bill to make it look like it cuts the deficit. If you add the money we’re all going to spend to help doctors not get cuts, that wipes out the deficit.”

DeMint says the bill will destroy the health care system and bankrupt the country. He appeared on CBS’s “Face the Nation” and focused on how this new law may be used against the Democrats in November. He told host Bob Schieffer,”The president is mocking Americans who continue to be against this bill. He said, ‘Bring it on’ – that’s what we intend to do.” [Read more...]