He absolutely must cut something significant in 2012 budget. Every easy top line item is a political landline. So, he needs to cut around the edges in hundreds of sub line items, if not thousands, in order to protect himself and the pubs politically. I think it is the wrong approach, but is an approach. Let's see how they do now.
As much as I’m for the end result if it gets a good deal, it doesn’t give me a lot of confidence when the CBO has to tell him what’s in his bill.
I mean really? Either he didn’t know what his bill would really do or he did and is changing it because he got exposed. Which do you think and why should that give me confidence in him?