An observant reader points out:

New York Times’ media bias continues to worsen, even without Howell Raines. Check out today’s front page article by Edmund Andrews, titled “Deal in Congress to Keep Tax Cuts, Widening Deficit”. You would think the bill was titled the “budget deficit expansion act,” as the actual policy enacted — extending the lower- and middle-income tax cuts from 2001– is virtually ignored. You have to wade through four paragraphs and two Charles Rangel quotes before Andrews even bothers to tell us which taxes are being cut!
Its funny, I can’t recall this obsessive deficitphobia when Congress created a Medicare drug benefit or increased education, health research and foreign aid spending (imagine “Deal in Congress to Hike Education, Widening Deficit.”) Who knew that only tax cuts created budget deficits?