Glenn Kessler may have been a nightmare over the years, especially when it came to the poorpalistinians, but from what I can tell he's not doing a bad job as "fact-checker" for the Washington Post. In fact (the pun was unintentional), he's doing a better job of it now than he was just last summer.
Here's one bit from his Fact checking Obama's 2012 SOTU speech:
Take the money we’re no longer spending at war, use half of it to pay down our debt, and use the rest to do some nation-building right here at home.”
[Kessler:] This is fanciful budget math. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were funded with borrowed money, so what Obama is really asking for is an increase in domestic spending relative to the Pentagon. The United States is still running huge deficits, so none of this imagined savings would “pay down the debt” until the United States once again began running surpluses. Instead, his proposal would continue to add to the debt.
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