The Center for American Progress has done a nice job illustrating data that the National Priorities Project just released on who's bearing the cost of the war. You can check out your state and see how much of the nearly $193 billion supplemental you'll be paying. But the thing is, for the most part, nobody's paying anything to finance this war just yet. We're just racking up more debt, and that'll have to be paid off from now until eternity.

Donny Shaw at the invaluable OpenCongress.org had an interesting interpretation of the SCHIP vote in the House: When the Democrats took over Congress in January, they passed new, hardcore budgeting rules known as PAYGO that require them to account for any spending increase by creating an equal increase in revenue elsewhere. With SCHIP, their fiscal heroism proved bittersweet; the revenue increase proposal they agreed upon ended up costing congressional Democrats the critical Republican votes they needed to get their proposal enacted.

Centrist David Broder thinks its crazy to oppose SCHIP. The spectacle Tuesday of 151 House Republicans voting in lock step with the White House against expansion of the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) was one of the more remarkable sights of the year. Rarely do you see so many politicians putting their careers in jeopardy.

FactCheck.Org has a good rundown of the half-truths, dissembling, gaffes, disingenuous remarks and false claims (AKA lies) by the anti-SCHIP legions. Lying is what you do when you have a weak argument. However, it can be pretty effective, as we all know, when nobody checks you. For more, see the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities fact check, and the Democrat's fact check. Yeah, there's been a lot of dissembling.