“I believe there will be a separate accounting,” Lugar said. “I think we will have to pay for it. I would just make this suggestion: that in the three weeks of debate we still have ahead of us, we really ought to concentrate in Congress on the war, on the overall strategy of our country and the cost of it. And we ought to be on the budget, passing appropriation bills in a proper way. In the course of that, we may wish to break out that. We may wish to discuss higher taxes to pay for it.”

Get that? The GOP is opposed to the health care reform bill because it will raise your taxes (wrong), but they’re willing to raise your taxes for permanent war. Because it’s the patriotic thing to do.

See how that works?