Mr. Brooks devoted his Times column the other day to critiquing the CPC budget, on the grounds that it was produced by government-loving, enterprise-hating lefties. A link to that critique, along with an admirably effective takedown of it, can be found here.
Quite apart from seconding the takedown, however, I have an additional question. Given the consensus from the Very Wise People (as Paul Krugman likes to call them) that this budget is even deader on arrival than the one produced by the Senate Budget Committee (or the Ryan Express, as I like to call it), why does Brooks even waste a bullet on it? He's not a careless writer, nor a completely knee-jerk ideologue.
Which leads me to the conclusion that Brooks is not afraid that this budget will see the light of day today, but that it might do so in the next Congress. Or, perhaps, that it might be the first budget offered by the OMB under President Clinton. Hillary, that is.
We'll see.
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