From Prime Buzz: Moore signs Blue Dog letter demanding “deficit neutral” health care reform. Emphasis mine.

Rep. Dennis Moore — joining more than three dozen other Democrats — signed a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi objecting to some parts of the health care reform package now circulating in Washington.

Read the letter here.

Among the concerns: Health care reform must be “deficit neutral”, and the a “Medicare-like” public option will unfairly impact providers.

And — in a key paragraph — the signers want “time to review” any health care reform package. The White House has asked for a bill by the August recess, which now seems almost impossible.

Moore’s signature is interesting because of the heat he’s taking on his vote for the cap-and-trade energy legislation, as well as his votes for the stimulus bills.

Interesting? Not really, as the pressure is building against the public option from – you guessed it – the public.

Still Democratic leaders in both chambers commit to an August deadline. Should be very interesting to watch. Fire up those phone lines.

In other news and opinion:

Michelle Malkin: Spawn of the Spendulus. Here that flushing sound? That’s your money.

Sister Toldjah on the Quote of the Day – from Carol Browner, climate-czar. Via Mark Tapscott:

Carol Browner, former Clinton administration EPA head and current Obama White House climate czar, instructed auto industry execs “to put nothing in writing, ever” regarding secret negotiations she orchestrated regarding a deal to increase federal Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards.

Rep. James Sensenbrenner, R-WI, is demanding a congressional investigation of Browner’s conduct in the CAFE talks, saying in a letter to Rep. Henry Waxman, D-CA, that Browner “intended to leave little or no documentation of the deliberations that lead to stringent new CAFE standards.”

Talk about transparency.

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