Everything You Need To Know

...about Minnesota GOP Gov. Tim Pawlenty's proposed balanced budget amendment to the U.S. Constitution:

Mr. Pawlenty's proposal for a federal amendment would include exceptions for war, natural disasters and other emergencies. The U.S. has been at war for most of the past decade.

So under this proposal, Bush still would have run up a multi-triliion dollar tab on the national debt in the Middle East, but we would have no stimulus or health care reform, or Medicare or Social Security for that matter.

It's funny how the GOP wants to work punishing social spending in the Constitution, but has zero problem for a decade of war spending.