Washington Post Fact Check Gets Big Fact Wrong

The Washington Post was quick to do a fact check on the debate claiming that President Obama had misrepresented the budget plan put forward by Morgan Stanley director Erskine Bowles and former Senator Alan Simpson, the co-chairs of the deficit commission. The fact check wrongly describes the plan as the "Simpson-Bowles deficit commission proposal."

In fact there was no proposal from the commission. According the commission's by-laws a plan would have needed the support of 14 of the 18 commiss...