Liberals and deficit hawks won’t like it, but President Obama was correct to cut a deal with Republicans to temporarily extend all Bush-era tax cuts, including to the wealthy. Politically, the deal was needed to move on other important issues, such as unemployment benefits. A temporary extension also was needed to keep the economy recovering — just as stimulus spending was needed to stabilize the economy. Still, it’s striking that the deal came less than one week after Obama’s deficit reduction commission issued its report, and a little more than a month after GOP lawmakers regained the U.S. House on promises to reduce the debt. The tax cuts and other benefits are projected to cost about $900 billion over the next two years, financed entirely by adding to the national debt.
Even though there have been only six convictions of voter fraud in Kansas since 2002 out of millions of votes cast, Kansas Secretary of State-elect Kris Kobach argues that “one is too many.” But shouldn’t there be a cost-benefit analysis on Kobach’s plan to require photo identification for voting and a birth certificate for registering to vote? As an Eagle 
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