The amount of potential waste, fraud and abuse that we could find is enormous. The amount that politicians and bureaucrats would find is minuscule. I think a meat cleaver approach is the only way that makes sense. I wouldn't specifically target waste -- I'd target entire $200B Dept budgets and say "Gone!"
If we stumble over $50,000 spent on ash trays, then, sure, I'd cut that as well. But it wouldn't be what I'd focus on. You can't empty the septic tank with a teaspoon.
Where are these guys on entitlement reform? It’s not as if they haven’t had a few decades to hone their proposals—or had four months now to get their newly elected colleagues up to speed.
Obama didn’t waste any time after being sworn in to start jamming Obamacare through. If he’d fiddled like Ryan and the rest of the GOP leadership, it never would have passed.