Whenever you talk about something 10 years from now, it's always basically going to be guesswork, something approaching science fiction and fantasy more than reality.
Katrina is to the domestic budget what Sputnik was to the space program.
Compared to those days, it just doesn't have any gravitas as an issue.
I figured they'd get to about here and then find it difficult. These cuts aren't real until you see the details.
It's a shadow of its former self, and it wasn't much to begin with.
In an election year, when the president's popularity is waning, I can't see Republicans walking the plank for him.
There is no consensus at all about what the budget debate is supposed to accomplish.
The president's budget is not the agenda-setting development or event that it used to be. They use it to make a political statement. It should in no way be taken as what they would actually do or what they actually want or what they're ultimately going to accept.
This president is losing his capacity to get a major domestic accomplishment because he is unwilling to put any portion of the tax cuts for the highest-income Americans on the table.
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