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Where others see failure, I see success. Limited success, for sure, but $1.2 trillion in “cuts” with no tax increases is better than any of the “grand bargains” that kept being floated to the media.

Now let’s put this sad business behind us and get back to openly debating where real savings can be found and cut.

UPDATE: As a further illustration of what I mean when I put “cuts” in quotation marks, I provide this chart from Veronique de Rugy:

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