Reply #7: This is a big acknowledgment by Treasury that financing the deficits

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that were created by Bush, Hastert, Frist and friends is becoming a huge problem. So they're hoping bond buyers will loan them money for 30 years before long-term interest rates kick in.

Recall the smugness of Bush & Co. when they killed the long bond while they were still sitting on the Clinton surplus.

Team Bush's fiscal policies have been disastrous, and now they're scrambling to find a way out.