Washington Post: 95% Believe Spending Cuts Are The Best Way To Cut The Deficit

By: Dan McLaughlin (Diary)  |  March 15th at 01:06 PM  | 

Greg Sargent, the Washington Post’s in-house left-wing activist, has a hilarious post up analyzing the latest WaPo poll. (The post was originally entitled, “The pubic agrees with Dems, but they don’t know it,” although eventually someone caught on and fixed the typo.) Everybody has typos; what’s more enduringly amusing is Sargent’s effort at spin:

“The Deficit” Is The Wrong Yardstick

By: Dan McLaughlin (Diary)  |  January 6th at 10:33 AM  | 

Yesterday’s swearing in of the new House and Senate, including the transition of power to Speaker Boehner and the new Republican majority in the House, inaugurates a new political season, in which “the deficit” promises to be front and center. President Obama is already sending up trial balloons about various proposals made by the Bowles-Simpson deficit commission. But Republicans should resist efforts to frame the | Read More »