It's easy for people to talk about caps and freezes. That's deficit reduction in the abstract. No one knows what "2008 levels," or "2006 levels," means. It's harder for them to say how much money they're going to take from food safety, from education, from drug research, from border security. When these budgets have to get detailed, and these members of Congress begin receiving calls from hospitals in their district and the principal of the elementary school their kids attend and the doctor who helped their mother through cancer and the sheriff who wants more money for border enforcement -- that's when we'll see what all this will really amount to. For now, it's mostly posturing.
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