The simpson-bowles plan

I think what happened with Simpson-Bowles was an absolute tragedy. I mean, here are two extremely high-grade people, they have somewhat different ideas about government. But they’re smart, they’re decent, they’ve got good senses of humor, too. They’re good at working with people. They work like the devil for 10 months or something like that. They compromise, they bring in people as far apart as Durbin and Coburn to get them to sign on, and then they’re totally ignored. I think that’s a travesty.