The despicable Al Franken

So don't worry about the cost of the health care bill. That's the latest meme from the big spenders. Don't WORRY about it.

Democrats' health care bill raises taxes right away, but the vast majority of its benefits do not kick in until 2014.

When Sen. John Thune, R-S.D, pointed this out today, Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., flatly contended that this is not the case, going so far as to assert, "We're not entitled to our own facts."

But Thune is correct, and Franken is wrong. The Spectator's Phil Klein has repeatedly pointed out the back-loaded spending built into each incarnation of the health care bill in order to disguise their true cost. For the previous Senate version (which is not too different from the current one in this respect) he produced this graphic representation: