The Speech

Teaching all day, and then watching Rangers/Mets getting right to my grading.   Apparently it was much better than expected?

…useful round-up of reactions. Text is here.

…this passage, which caused David Broder’s grave to spin all the way to Wisconsin, was indeed the best part:

The fact is, their vision is less about reducing the deficit than it is about changing the basic social compact in America. As Ronald Reagan’s own budget director said, there’s nothing “serious” or “courageous” about this plan. There’s nothing serious about a plan that claims to reduce the deficit by spending a trillion dollars on tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires. There’s nothing courageous about asking for sacrifice from those who can least afford it and don’t have any clout on Capitol Hill. And this is not a vision of the America I know.