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:

Deficits Are A Symptom. The Problem Is Spending.

By: Dan McLaughlin (Diary)  |  July 15th at 01:00 PM  | 

Do deficits matter? The Obama Administration has been in something of a quandary lately as to whether to primarily emphasize its plans to spend more taxpayer money as “stimulus” or to paint itself as fighting against deficits. The former has the advantage of looking like the White House is doing – or trying against GOP opposition to do – something about the economy and its | Read More »

Obama’s Big Spending Numbers

By: Dan McLaughlin (Diary)  |  August 26th at 01:07 PM  | 

Heritage’s Brian Riedl crunches some of the still-staggering numbers on the Democrats’ spending spree, including the fact that the projected 2009 budget deficit is larger than the Bush budget deficits for FY 2002-2007 (the six years when Bush had a Republican Congress to work with) combined. A worthwhile fact to recall when dealing with liberals who cannot comprehend how one could be more concerned about | Read More »