Democrats hope to press the "affordability" issue in this year's midterm election season, but there's one potentially glaring problem for them, as illustrated by our friends at Unleash Prosperity...
[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="668"] Biden Versus Trump on Inflation[/caption]
It would be one helluva entertaining spectacle to watch liberals do back flips with budget numbers if the consequences weren’t so serious. Not even Cirque de Soleil performers are so acrobatic and adept at shape-shifting pyrotechnics. The left’s latest gambit is to claim that federal domestic discretionary spending, in context, is not extravagant, and indeed that an apples-to-apples comparison shows it hasn’t even risen in the past decade.
The claim is laughable.
Brian Beutler of Talking Points Memo publicized this assertion on July 4, providing service as an amanuensis…