The Whole Delivery

Sir Alan Simpson, the classy Republican member of The Deficit Catfood Commission, continues his crusade of eviscerating Social Security once and for all in a letter to one of his justified critics in Ashley Carson of the Older Women’s League : Anyway, have a look at it and if you should choose, you might communicate with me. If you have some better suggestions about how to stabilize Social Security instead of just babbling into the vapors, let me know. And yes, I’ve made some plenty smart cracks about people on Social Security who milk it to the last degree. You know ‘em too. It’s the same with any system in America. We’ve reached a point now where it’s like a milk cow with 310 million tits! Call when you get honest work! Al The proud classy old Republican member of the President Barack Obama's debt commission, on social security (and lovely male chauvinism). I wonder how many tits a milk cow has for his Medicare and Medicaid comparison? Maybe 310 billion.

Photo from Ron Sachs/Bloomberg/Pool You simply cannot focus on bring significant jobs growth while showing analogous intensity (and maybe more) for the deficit (unless you want to cut our absurd military spending, which is getting some attention thankfully , but not like it should still though). You just can't : President Obama yesterday tapped veteran adviser Jacob “Jack’’ Lew, former staffer to Bay State lawmakers, to head the Office of Management and Budget. If he goes back to his old job, Lew will have to wrangle with the biggest budget deficit in history, forcing him to look for more cuts and revenues to reach the president’s ultimate goal of a reduced deficit. “Jack’s challenge over the next few years is to use his extraordinary skill and experience to cut down that deficit and put our nation back on a fiscally responsible path. And I have the utmost faith in his ability to achieve this goal as a central member of our economic team,’’ Obama said. Of course, Mr. Co-Op s...