Post Runs Another Front Page Editorial on Social Security and Medicare

The "grand bargain" to cut Social Security and Medicare is looking increasingly dead these days. Projections for future deficits have fallen sharply because of the sequester, higher than expected tax revenues (although with slower than expected growth), and much slower projected health care cost growth.

This situation has made the Post very unhappy. It ran a front page piece with the headline, "urgency on the debt fades with big issues unsolved." Of course this is not true.

The big issues ha...