The President managed to get at some of the inconsistencies in the G.O.P.: the supposed deficit hawks who fight against closing any last tax loopholes, for example.
And the supposed deficit hawks, who should be celebrating the prospect of such a big move in their direction, aren't.
Another talked-about candidate is Paul Ryan, the right-wing Congressman and supposed deficit hawk whose draconian and dangerous budget Mr. Romney has endorsed.
Paul Ryan, the chairman of the House Budget Committee, proposed a supposed deficit-reduction plan that included huge tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy, then received an award for fiscal responsibility.
Even so, however, much of the supposed deficit reduction comes not from Medicare but from further cuts in discretionary spending relative to GDP, with the number eventually falling to 3.5 percent of GDP (see Table 2 in the CBO report).
This expert consensus refutes the already thoroughly discredited arguments of supposed deficit hawks, like the House speaker, Paul Ryan, that the bills would energize the economy and make it more competitive globally.
If the young artist did indeed adopt this dictum, then he was self-consciously proposing a career that would redeem Venetian painting of its supposed deficit: a lack of rigor in the design and construction of images that was all too often hidden by a sumptuous, painterly overlay.
The workshops in Rostock indicate that the supposed deficit in knowledge on climate adaptation is not necessarily a constraining element.
Stopping our enormous open-ended investment in Afghanistan would reduce our long-term debt by more than $1 trillion and do more to cut the deficit than any of the Republican Party's supposed deficit reduction efforts, such as the Republican bill to end public financing of campaigns.
Brzezinski replied a few minutes later on Twitter with a photo of a box of Cheerios that carried the slogan, "Made for Little Hands" — a reference to the president's supposed anatomical deficits.
Are deficits good -- we're supposed to deficit spend our way out of a severe recession, right?
