23 Feb 2010 Harry Reid Proves Deficit Commission is a Joke

What a joke President Obama’s “deficit commission” (deficit of leadership, I’d say) is. Majority Leader Harry Reid has announced that one of the three big-spending liberals* he’s appointing to a commission intended to convince us the left isn’t spending us into perdition is Montana Senator Max Baucus.

Baucus has since 2007 held the chairmanship of the Senate Finance Committee, which has oversight over the fiscal fortunes of Social Security and Medicare, both of which are insolvent. Does Baucus do anything about this? Does he even hold hearings to seriously discuss what to do?

No, except for spending much of the last couple of years working to expand the burden under which these systems operate (when he wasn’t taking his girlfriend, who was on his taxpayer-financed staff payroll, on taxpayer-financed tours of exotic locales), Baucus has been doing nothing about the insolvent Social Security and Medicare systems.

And now we’re supposed to believe he cares enough about the federal deficit to help make the hard decisions that can get the country out of this mess? Ha!

P.S. I hope the GOP gives one of its slots to Texas Rep. Ron Paul, who is likely to sit at all the meetings — these meetings all will be on C-SPAN, right Mrs. President? — and say “where in the Constitution does it give us the authority to spend this? Where in the Constitution does it give us the authority to spend that?” The leftists will ignore him but the public would love the fact that they can’t give him an answer.

* The other two are Senators Dick Durbin and Kent Conrad, whose big-spending ways are legendary.

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