Create the deficit with

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Create the deficit with upper-income tax cuts; shrink the deficit with Social Security benefit cuts.

That sort of typifies the Bush-era Republican shell game on fiscal policy. And it’s what Alan Greenspan said today on the Hill.

But Greenspan did the White House no favors with this one. McClellan will get asked about this tomorrow and it’ll be hanging around their necks for some time.

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