[okie01]

"We have made real progress towards shrinking an overgrown federal government and reforming our broken entitlement system," McCarthy wrote. "But our work is far from done."

When did this happen?

What shrinkage? What reform?

"Far from done"? Hell, they haven't even started!

[arthurus]

“Made progress” doesn’t mean that anything was accomplished, only that someone was thinking about it which is progress from not thinking about it. Thinking about it means thinking about how to prevent it.