What Atrios Said

On the deficit:

The best hope is that this is mostly about selling future deficit reductions rather than anything near term.

I do not know why Dems think people really care about the deficit. They don't. In bad times it's just something "bad" they project their anxieties onto, but they don't care.

Though, in the spirit of cooperation, I will offer up my suggestions for deficit: cancel a couple wars.

Ding ding ding!

I will reiterate:  Anyone who says they are a fiscal conservative while voting that we need to continue to fight in Iraq and Afghanistan is a lying sack of crap that deserves to be voted out of Washington.  If that means some Democrats have to go, so be it.  But it will mean a much larger number of Republicans will be gone as well.