As per instructions.

Deficit of $1.4 trillion in 2011? Apparently not extreme.

Cutting something like $60 billion? Extreme!

The Democrats have lost it.

As further evidence that their brains have stopped working, notice that despite the fact that all the Democrats on the conference call figured out that the reporters had heard the Word of the Day, they still used it.

It's like standing in front of a kid covered with chocolate. He knows he's covered with chocolate, and he knows damn well you know he's covered with chocolate, and still telling you right to your face that he's never been near the chocolate. A little kid brain has some excuse for this kind of thing. What's the excuse for a politician?