Be Skeptical, Be Very Very Skeptical in Reading NYT Budget Reporting

That's what the NYT told readers at the very beginning of its piece on negotiations over the reopening the government and the debt ceiling. Okay, that line probably was not intended to refer to the NYT's budget reporting, but it certainly is appropriate in that context.

This stuff is getting to be a really bad joke. At one point this piece tells readers:

"That suggests a less ambitious outcome for any deficit-reduction talks that would spring from the current impasse. In the past, the general...