> It's one thing to make a deal like this - it's another to translate it into
> ten real annual budgets.
This is what I keep thinking. The "deal" isn't really much of a deal. Everyone got to strike the poses they wanted. But not very much seems to have actually happened. That upsets deficit hawks. But it also upsets people who want actual tax hikes, for example. And it upsets the rest of us because it seems to express an agreement in principle between the two parties to cut spending, and mainly not Pentagon spending.
So there isn't much, and what there is, is bad. In short.
Is that wrong?
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