The White House unveils a separate web site to deal with online rumors. Is the reason that the health-care bill is encountering skepticism really viral online rumors? Aren’t the concerns and arguments right out there on the op-ed pages and on the airwaves? Are the counter-arguments coming from e-mail lists, or from the CBO, the Blue Dogs, deficit hawks, certain groups of elderly, pro-life Democrats, etc.?

Robert Samuelson notes today that while Obama is “denouncing skyrocketing health spending, he would increase it by extending government health insurance to millions more Americans.”

Ramesh asks a simple, clear question: Are we really to put our faith in Obama’s contradictory claims that “the system is an unsustainable disaster, but you can keep your piece of it if you want”?

I’ve wondered how the bill is going to cover the uninsured, expand care, and cut costs all at once; put more succinctly, they’re promising the new system will spend less money and more money at the same time.

The common theme is that the Obama administration is making multiple promises that are impossible to keep; the response is basically . . . “Shut up, you domestic terrorist“?