Jeff Bezos' Newspaper Runs Joke Front Page Story on Deficit

Those who hoped that Jeff Bezos takeover of the Washington Post would lead to a quick improvement in the quality of its budget reporting will be seriously disappointed by the paper's lead story today. The story bemoaned the fact that, "after six budget showdowns, big government is mostly unchanged [the article's headline]."

The article uses four metrics to measure the size of government, none of which would inform readers of anything. Its lead metric is spending in nominal dollars, which it t...