The Paygo Con [Democrats aren't paying for any of their new entitlement spending]

Wall Street Journal ^ | 5/22/10 | Stephen Moore

[rhema]

A day after beating incumbent Arlen Specter in a Pennsylvania Democratic Senate primary contest, Rep. Joe Sestak announced that he would make "enforcement of the pay-as-you-go budget rules" a priority if he wins in November. Good luck to him.

Pay-as-you-go, or paygo, rules require that new entitlement spending and new tax cuts must be paid for dollar-for-dollar with entitlement spending cuts or tax increases. As Paul Ryan, the ranking Republican member of the House Budget Committee has noted, the Democrats under Speaker Nancy Pelosi "have violated pay-as-you-go rules by nearly $1 trillion" over the past three years.

[ripley]

“Democrats Aren’t Paying For Any of Their New Entitlement Spending”

When did they ever?

IMHO

[DrC]

Ryan’s list doesn’t even include the $300 or so billion “doc fix” to be passed soon. Of course, Dems may not agree to a permanent fix but instead to a less costly version that essentially kicks the can down the road another 6 months or a year. Congress has figured out it’s quite useful to keep docs “on the hook” for regular “fixes” to their Medicare pay as this maximizes the incentive of MDs to kick in generously to congressional campaign coffers.

[Daisyjane69]

Looks like they’re gonna go out in a blaze of glory!

[Wolfie]

The wars aren’t PayGo. Why should anything else be?

[CPT Clay]

Kick in generously to republicans

[Major Matt Mason]

Why is this surprising? When have Dems ever been held accountable for things they say or laws they pass?