Kent Conrad actually said...

I believe history will condemn us all if we do not do substantially more for the decade than is in this budget.

we did get 11 of 18 to agree--five Democrats, five Republicans, one Independent. And we reduced the debt $4 trillion over the next 10 years.

100 percent of GDP is too high.

the debt is stabilized, but it is stabilized at a level that is too high.