Robert Samuelson Complains About the Paint Job on the Titanic: Yet Another Deficit Whine

It is really incredible how much ink that Robert Samuelson and his colleagues on the Post's opinion and news pages can devote to the budget deficit at a time when 26 million people are unemployed, underemployed or out of work altogether. In a column on Monday Samuelson told us of his "fantasy":

"Retired presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush would tour the country together and apologize. They would apologize for not tackling Social Security and Medicare when they had the chance."

What a f...