The moral of the story is, if the leaders of both parties don't want a commission to succeed, if the leaders of both parties aren't willing to put both parts of the budget, taxes and spending, on the table, the chances that it is going to have a successful outcome are going to be low.
Stresses the importance of bipartisan cooperation for commission success.
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