When Actions Don’t Meet Words

First Read: “The most important message the White House and some congressional Republicans seemed intent on sending this week is that they don’t like these spending cuts — these are bad spending cuts. But their ACTIONS did not meet their WORDS. A conspiracy theorist might conclude that politicians want the cuts to go through while not getting blamed for them.”

Walter Shapiro: “This weekend, as the government arbitrarily cuts funding for domestic
and military programs–regardless of merit or logic–it can truly be said
that the inmates are now running the asylum.”