What’s black and white and red all over? Today’s news about the deficit!*
The same day Washington grappled with a spending freeze to help fight the deficit — which the CBO today projected to hit $1.3 trillion — the Senate voted against the (patently ridiculous) bipartisan deficit commission this morning. The commission wouldn’t have worked anyway, but the roll call surprises me: Thirty-six Democrats, and only 16 Republicans voted for the amendment (yes, that’s a majority but the special floor rules required a super-majority).
Wait, why only 16 Republicans?
I wonder if the GOP would have voted for the commission if Obama hadn’t
publicly supported it last week (after demurring for a month). I do
love to scold plastic-feathered deficit hawks, but I’m not going to
castigate the no-votes for lack of seriousness. There’s no story here
except that some moderate senators lost a fake debate about how to have a separate fake debate about cutting the deficit.
*Sorry.
