The lighter side of doom with Alan Simpson

Published November 28, 2012 5:00am ET



The overall message at the Christian Science Monitor breakfast today with Clinton administration official Erskine Bowles and ex-Wyoming senator Alan Simpson about the budget and the deficit was pretty gloomy. Such messages are a lot easier to take though when you’ve got the senator’s legendary sarcastic wit to wash it down:

Here are some of the Simpson’s nuggets of wisdom:

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