I was willing to give this whole Deficit Commission a fair hearing, but now that Alan Simpson has shown his ass to anyone paying attention, he just needs to go. It wasn't that it was sexist so much as it was stupid, selfish and mean, and an incredibly poor attempt to channel HL Mencken.
Howie Klein says get rid of the whole thing now (Right after the spelling police visit, anyway).
RJ Eskow has written such a great piece, I can't imagine saying much that would add anything, so I'll just say "what he said."
Of course the real question is why on earth did the administration pull this cadaverous joker out of his own cushy, federally funded retirement to head up the ill-conceived deficit commission in the first place?
If it was with the hope of intentional sabotage, that's been done. There's plenty of political fire to send this "old geezer" home. Get on it, White House.
