David Broder Discovers National Debt; World Awaits Similar Discovery of Government Spending

David Broder's addled mind continues to punch out 750 words a week for the WaPost, and this time he's treated us once again to the old standard of the left--that we need to raise taxes to deal with our accumulating debt--never mind that policy choices have created (and exacerbated) this debt.

This is how the left would have it; create entitlements (even when national debt is already out of control) then point back at the fiscal "crisis" to justify raising taxes.

Little or no talk of cutting spending, in this article or anywhere else.

David Broder--Cheerleader for Congressional Democrats

In one of those columns for which the aging Broder is becoming famous, he treats us all to a walk down wistful memory lane, this time with the help of another aging Washington luminary-- Michigan Congressman John Dingell, who succeeded his father in a special election in--1955 (yikes)--when his father died in office. While Republican family connections always seem to raise talk of impending monarchy, Dems seem to get a pass on this one--Broder puts it here thusly: "It was 1955 when Dingell succeeded his late father in a special election from Downriver Detroit and took up the family business of working for health care to be guaranteed for every family regardless of income."

"Family business of working for healthcare". I'll say. John Dingell's never done a day of "business business" in his life. But I digress.

Broder's obviously a HUGE FAN of the healthcare atrocity, but even his cheerleading cannot hide the basic chicanery at the heart of this bill. Broder lightly puts it this way: "Inevitably, the cost of the guarantees embodied in this bill will confront a future Congress with hard choices these legislators finessed."

"Finessed"? I'll say. I love it when even someone on their side acknowledges that this bill is a lie.

David Broder, Patron Saint of Idiot Pols

Shortly after the Skivvy Bomber's failed attempt to kill 200 people elicited Janet Napolitano's famous, "the system worked" comment, David Broder penned a glowing hagiography of her in the Post.

This week, Senator Chris Dodd receives Broder's praise as "...a straight shooter."

I loved this line: "Like his friend Ted Kennedy, Dodd enjoyed good whiskey and the company of pretty women, but his uptown tastes never compromised his allegiance to the working stiffs' Democratic Party in which he was raised."

Next up: Broder to defend William Jefferson as an innovative banker.