Sometimes the biggest laughs come when reporters don't realize they're being funny.Check out this passage from the Wall Street Journal story about Peter Orszag, the administration's point man for controlling health-care spending:
The wonkish economist likes to say he doesn't have a "license to practice politics." But with problems brewing, the technocrat sprang into the thick of the political haggling...
After his TV appearances, he went straight to the Senate Finance Committee, where he spent three hours with committee aides brainstorming about how to pay for the trillion-dollar legislation. At one point, they flipped through the tax code, looking for ideas...
