"Go ahead!" the gremlins hiss into Democratic ears. "Spend and borrow. The Republicans did it. Don't be a goody-two-shoes about this 'pay-as-you-go' stuff."

The gremlins are hard at work trying to throw a wrench into the Democrats' Paygo resolve. For them, getting Democrats to abandon their promise of fiscal discipline would be a splendid act of sabotage.

Under the Paygo rules, new entitlement spending must be offset by tax hikes or savings elsewhere. Tax cut ...

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