Judd Gregg: “I think the appropriate way to approach this is to set the size of the government as a percent of GDP.”

We cannot continue to let health care costs rise faster than our National income.

Your careers may end happily before the reckoning. Your reelections may not be threatened by your inaction. But your consciences should be.

I think in order to get Republican buy-in on further revenues you are going to have to do policy changes in entitlement accounts that bend the curves in the outyear in a very substantial way, and make it clear that those accounts are…

It makes no sense whatsoever, and it's apparently--certainly makes no sense for the same people to be urgently arguing to deal with climate change and then either quiet or urgently opposed to nuclear power.