After months of intense debate, the president's National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform has produced a plan to move this country, now lurching toward fiscal disaster, toward firmer economic footing. As a member of this bipartisan commission and co-author of the Conrad-Gregg Bipartisan Fiscal Task Force legislation the panel is based on, I hope this plan will be supported. It should not be viewed as the ultimate solution. But it is a template for governance, something that has been sorely lacking as the country sinks deeper and deeper into debt. For the past century, the United States has been...