Peter Orszag, the cutest, coolest, cowboy-boot wearin'est budgeting badass ever to wrangle spreadsheets for a U.S. administration, is standing up to those not-so-cool critics who continue to insistthat the health reform package President Obama and CongressionalDemocrats have put together is not, in fact, deficit neutral. Atthe Office of Management and Budget's blog, which I'm sure you allread religiously, he writes:

Recently, a lot of attention has been paid to a claim that thisdeficit reduction is achieved only through a business-as-usualWashington budget gimmick: paying for just a few years of costswith many more years of savings.

This charge, he says, is "false," and he wants everyone suckeredby it to "get their facts straight." He then proceeds to explainthat, although...