“Simpson is simply spouting right-wing crap. And I can understand the Clintonesque Democratic Leadership Council types, led by Erskine Bowles, the other co-chair of Obama’s deficit commission, wanting to play games with the right-wingers as they try to get their usual triangulation model set up. But how Obama thinks he can win votes out of the deficit commission charade is way over my head.”
While on vacation for the past two weeks, I didn't read the papers or look at TV, so I was mercifully unaware of the latest bon mot from one of the leading politcal pricks of the summer, former Senator Alan Simpson, who co-chairs Obama's entitlement-cutting "deficit commission." Just in case you haven't heard about it, here's an account from CBS: In a letter responding to criticisms against him from a group representing older women, former Wyomin … Read More
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