There Was No Report from Bowles-Simpson Deficit Reduction Commission

We know that the Washington Post's editors really liked the report produced by Morgan Stanley director Erskine Bowles and former Senator Alan Simpson, the co-chairs of President Obama's deficit commission, but that should not be a reason to misrepresent the report to readers. An article today referred to the report as "the report of the Simpson-Bowles deficit-reduction commission."

Of course there was no report approved by the commission. According to the commission's by-laws, a report would...