It's a new day at the Washington Post

The Washington Post axed most of their editorial staff last week:

The Washington Post launched a sweeping round of layoffs Friday in its Opinion section, cutting veteran journalists and longtime staffers.

The Washington Post ignited a firestorm inside its own newsroom after reportedly axing more than a dozen editorial staffers, according to multiple reports. NBC News reporter Mark Segraves said that Marc Fisher — a 39-year veteran of the paper and one of its most recognized voices — was among those terminated.

Today we see the new direction on the editorial board with an editorial that would have been unthinkable in recent memory: "The shutdown conversation no one wants."

President Joe Biden and congressional Democrats used covid-19 to justify chasing the mirage of a European-style welfare state without raising the necessary taxes to pay for it. Now, prodded by the left, party leaders have shut down the government in a bid to permanently extend what was sold in 2021 as emergency subsidies to help people struggling during the pandemic afford health insurance.

Two paragraphs in, the WashPost reminds us that 1) Democrats are responsible for this shutdown and 2) they're shutting down the government to support subsidies that were sold as "emergency" and temporary.  Amazing.

To be sure, there's plenty of criticism of Trump for also expanding the national debt but I never thought I'd see statements like this:

Yet Democrats have demanded that Republicans agree to extend the covid-era insurance subsidies without proposing any way to pay for it. The Congressional Budget Office estimates this will cost $350 billion over the next decade. These temporary benefits were included in the American Rescue Plan of March 2021 and extended the next year in the misnamed Inflation Reduction Act until the end of 2025.

The "misnamed" Inflation Reduction Act!

The real problem is that the Affordable Care Act was never actually affordable.

Did I land in some Bizarro world where the Washington Post would voice a discouraging word about Saint Obama?  It truly is a new day at the Paper.  At this rate, we'll be seeing an endorsement of J.D. Vance for President in three years.