The problem with the Social Security reform is that it was poorly formulated from the start. It wasn't going anywhere long before Katrina blew into the Gulf Coast.
Making the tax cuts permanent is going to require a deft realignment of the budget, with the White House insisting that every dollar of hurricane relief for New Orleans be matched by a dollar cut from the pork deposits in the energy and highway bills or elsewhere.
p>But you folks at the Spectator really ought not to be holding the egg carton for the lunatics at the New York Times and Newsweek . It's unseemly.