BLUE BOOK POWER
I think it was Douthat comma Ross who wrote that he might recoil from exhaustion if he had to listen to one more screed on GOP "rebranding". I reached that point yesterday, with lead stories from Matthews and Maddow again on the GOP. Who cares, anymore, except as fascination with the macabre?
Coupled with the initiative to close tax loopholes, a pattern of steps to keep a firm handle on the politics of spending and collecting, emerges. One starts to sleep more assured.
Obama struck a blow for those who would move out of the block-and-tackle mode and actually move over into the fast lane that is governance, where setting the agenda and the debate are important.His team unveiled a 100-page book, outlining line-by-line $17 billion in cuts to the budget. Eat your heart out, John McCain, right? Each line-item contains a paragraph or two of "justification". Gnomes have been working hard to save dollars!
The media are downplaying it, and playing 5-second snips from the President's speech. Sadly, the Whitehouse doesn't have the video source on the website.
Coupled with the initiative to close tax loopholes, a pattern of steps to keep a firm handle on the politics of spending and collecting, emerges. One starts to sleep more assured. Readers here know that I'm one who would print up "I {heart} Peter Orzag" buttons, already, though, for how he has helped this Administration so far. Heck, I'm still waiting for the 10% that Rumsfeld said that anyone could get out of a budget, when he promised the same for the Pentagon ...
