Stephen Moore, writing in the Wall Street Journal, says that the choice of former Wyoming senator Alan Simpson to co-chair (along with Erskine Bowles, who is stepping down from his UNC presidency) is terrible. Read Moore’s piece here.
IMHO, this is another instance of Obama voting “present.” He wants to delay and duck responsibility for the astounding growth of federal spending and debt, so he appoints a commission to study the problem and offer “solutions.” You could say this is “passing the buck” but trillions of them.
