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You said it.

First they pass a tax cut that is "only" $350B -- so that G. Voinovich can say he didn't expand the deficit. Then they pass a Medicare bill that is "only" $400B -- so that Republicans can claim they're not increasing the deficit. Meanwhile, everybody in Washington KNOWS that both programs will be far more than advertised, and the deficit will balloons like Tip O'Neill's waistline.

No wonder Ted Kennedy is in such a good mood. He's probably going to Tip's grave every night and enjoying a good laugh with Tip's ghost. Both of them know that tax-and-spend is ideal, but tax-and-borrow-and-inflate is just as good! Siiner or later, either interest rates will increase to feed that deficit, or inflation will be stoked up. THEN, the 'Rats will claim (correctly) that the Republicans mismanaged the economy, and that taxes will have to be raised (because no way those entitlements will go away!)

Between the SCOTUS decisions and the new drug entitlement, this week was like something right out of the Sixties.

Between the SCOTUS decisions and the new drug entitlement, this week was like something right out of the Sixties.

When you think about what has happened since 9/11 the constitution might as well be a roll of toilet paper. This week was the icing on the cake that it means absolutely nothing anymore.