Sucking up.

• Author: Peters, Charles
• Position: Tilting at Windmills - Alan Greenspan - Brief Article

Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) may have been a trifle harsh in describing Alan Greenspan as "one of the biggest political hacks in Washington." But Greenspan is a good distance from the heroic figure depicted by most of the media. If there was a decisive moment in the debates over Bush's tax cuts in 2001, it was when they were endorsed by Greenspan. Yet they, and Bush's subsequent tax cuts, have been primarily responsible for the deficit that Greenspan now so...