Deficit Hawks and the Games They Play

E.J. Dionne, Washington Post
WASHINGTON -- For 30 years, conservative ideologues have played moderate deficit hawks for suckers. You'd think this might endow those middle-of-the-road deficit-busters with a touch of humility. Fat chance. Instead, they stick with their self-righteous moralism, pretending to be bipartisan and beyond ideology. In fact, they make the problem they want to solve worse by continuing to empower the tax-cuts-in-every-season conservatives.Receive news alertsIt's thus satisfying to see President Obama ignore the willfully naive who are wailing over deficits. He knows that new revenues will...

Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/02/17/obama_and_the_failure_of_deficit_hawks_108931.html

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