[He said Edwards also did well.] Clark keeps honing his message, he gets better and better, ... He's still got a little bit of polishing to do to get his political appeal down to the level of the others who are more skilled practitioners than he is. |
[Wednesday's] bankruptcy filing by Delta and Northwest is a grim reminder of the strains being placed on the government's pension-guarantee program. |
any kind of significant downturn in the economy is going to put the budget back in the red. |
could easily add $50 to $100 billion more. |
Don't begin to think we're going to reach common ground, |
Even after the economy is back on its feet and grows -- upon their assumption of the rate of 3.2 percent a year -- even then, we still have a negative bottom line after you back out Social Security and Medicare, as we think he should, |
I think what's happened here is the Republicans are smarting under the charge that they've raided the Social Security trust fund. Their proposal now purports to stop ... the so-called raid. If there's any raid, it's one they've conducted, |
If Republicans want to make the case that this is about Katrina, they're going to have to take tax cuts out of the package. |
It is bad news for taxpayers, who might have to cover part of the unfunded pension costs for Northwest and Delta employees, |
It would put us on a path to endless deficits and a Mount Everest of mountainous debt, |
It's daunting to consider where we were five years ago, as we sat here on a surplus of $236 billion. |
It's hard to get a clear picture of exactly where we stand. We've made progress with the training of Iraqi security forces, but it's taken a lot longer to get there than we anticipated. |
More deficits, more debt, and more denial. |
Once we got the budget today, we found out why it was so long coming, |
tax cuts so large they left no room for error. |