Fiscal Sanity and Political Sanity Are Needed on Budget

• By Norman Ornstein
• Roll Call Contributing Writer
• Feb. 16, 2010, Midnight

Earlier this month, Robert Reischauer, president of the Urban Institute and former head of the Congressional Budget Office, presided over the annual Urban Institute Roundtable on the federal budget, where a broad-based group of budget mavens and economic experts gather for a few hours of off-the-record discussions on the president’s budget and its economic and political implications. It is always interesting and enlightening, and usually depressing.