The Deficit Isn’t the Biggest Problem

E.J. Dionne: “Here’s the mistake made by President Obama and the Democrats that nobody is talking about: They have been too fearful of confronting our country’s three-year obsession with the wrong problem.”

“And here is the tea party’s greatest victory: It has made the wrong problem the center of policymaking.”

“The wrong problem is the deficit. The right problem is sluggish growth and persistent unemployment.”