DEMOCRATS MOVE TO SEIZE GOP BRAND IMAGE
Obama's team are willing to take an axe to various programs and push through others. They've already got street-cred on earmarks, whether that waivers or not. They've pushed the lobbyists out of overwhelming influence, at least in the WH.
Despite Bush's calls to "rein in spending", the GOP never did.
That's the earmarking, wartime-endless-"supplemental" and do-nothing Congresses of the leave-a-deficit-and-problems-for-the-next-guy GOP.
David Brooks can't find anything to quibble with, so he goes "gestalt" - he's got general anxiety:
But the Obama budget is more than just the sum of its parts.
I mean, seriously, it's a budget. Just savor that (knee-jerk?) over-intellectualization, from Brooks.
