Photo: Senate Budget Committee
Here's President Obama's deficit commission co-chair on Fox News.
“This is a fakery,” Simpson said on Fox News. “If they care at all about their children or grandchildren, and sometimes I doubt that—I think, you know, grandchildren now don’t write a thank-you for the Christmas presents, they’re walking on their pants with the cap on backwards listening to the enema man and Snoopy Snoopy Poop Dogg, and they don’t like them!”
Enema man.
You may ask, why is this man testifying before the Senate Finance Committee tomorrow? That's a very good question. Particularly since Chairman Kent Conrad has asked Simpson and his co-chair, Erskine Bowles, to testify "about the final report of the National Commission."
It's an even better question considering that there was no final report of the National Commission. The commission failed to issue a final report. Not that inconvenient truths like that will deter Kent Conrad from his favorite deficit peacockery hobby horse, Social Security. Not even the massive embarrassment to the public discourse that is Alan Simpson.