Scott Bittle and Jean Johnson: The Budget Debate for Grownups
Apr 16, 2008 - The problem with bringing some sort of sanity to the federal budget isn't that people don't want sanity. It's that they usually want something else more.
Political candidates and their advisors know this, and they generally act accordingly.
Take Douglas Holtz-Eakin, for example. The Republican economist and former Congressional Budget Office director used to say eminently sensible things…

