[Thebaddog]

The world really is upside down if this loon is seen as conservative. He wanted to tax us small people overtly. That’s conservative?

[Yossarian]

The terrifying thing is that Orszag probably was - in a RELATIVISTIC SENSE - a budget conservative for this White House.

With him leaving, just imagine how much worse it's going to get! :-(

[DrC]

“The world really is upside down if this loon is seen as conservative.”

You said it. Orszag was fully complicit with the mendacious accounting in the health reform bill, saying with a straight face it would bend the cost curve (reduce health spending) and lower the deficit. In that context, claims that he really cares about our long term deficits ring very hollow.