They did congratulate themselves. They even boasted about the ``pay-go surplus'' on the pay-go scorecard. But they shouldn't congratulate themselves for hard choices--they should congratulate themselves for thinking up gimmicks and machinations to fool people into believing they made hard choices.
Criticizing the use of budgetary gimmicks in fiscal policy discussions.
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