Time to Put the Deficit Commission Out of Our Misery

Tuesday 06 July 2010

by: Dean Baker, t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed

It's time to stop wasting the taxpayers' money and shut down President Obama's deficit commission. It is now clear that it has become a national joke.

One of the co-chairs of the commission is former Wyoming Sen. Alan Simpson. Simpson is often touted in the media for his plain-spoken man of the people ways. The media version doesn't quite fit the facts. Simpson worked his way up to the Senate from being the son of a former Wyoming senator.