James Carville actually said...

"It's early, but it's later than you think."

"I think -- I think he makes an eminently fair point. So, January the 4th, two months, when they come back, let them specify the $100 billion cuts out of $477 billion. I think that's an eminently reaso..."

"But they have pledged to cut $100 billion -- 20 percent."

"We do have some guidance from the Republicans in the Pledge to America, which was a campaign document in which they pledged to cut $100 billion out of the $477 billion in discretionary spending."