…the bipartisan Bowles-Simpson fiscal commission. In an update this afternoon, Sargent says Dem Senate leadership is willing to propose further spending cuts in exchange for the closing of the most…

…of Iraq will inflame it” (Jeffrey Simpson, Toronto Globe and Mail, April 10). MBITRW: Effective immediately, Palestinian suicide bombers are no longer subsidised by Baghdad; in Jordan, the Saddamite boot…

…mess, which invites games of chicken that have no point. They claim that they are merely supporting the Bowles-Simpson plan, which of course they are not since they are refusing…

…effort by some–like the Peterson Institute, the Simpson-Bowles comedy tour, and right-wing propaganda tanks–to cast Medicare as impossible to sustain because of the current trend in health care costs. The…

…up with an agreement on the Simpson-Bowles ratification, and then cannot come up [with] enough compromises to pass a plan of their own, and the President refuses to extend the…

…section instead of reporting. Lori Montgomery “Avoiding hard decisions could have grave consequences, analysts say…” … Few expect Washington to replicate the scope of the Bowles-Simpson plan. Though it is…

…(first proposed by Simpson-Bowles) to 2.2%. Among other proposals which include Home Health Co-Pays, SNF (skilled nursing facility) shared payments, raising Medicare eligibility to the age of 67, lies a…

…up by the White House and key Senate Democrats, is a scheme for the president to embrace much of the Bowles-Simpson plan — including cuts in Social Security. This is…

…to achieve deficit stability. Of course, it is more reasonable than the pronunciamenti of the Simpson-Bowles cabal, with a wiser assortment of cuts and more progressive tax adjustments. Still, it…

…the Post did not even mention plans by the Bowles-Simpson and the Pew-Peterson deficit commission to cut the annual cost of living adjustment. This change would reduce benefits by an…