Budget reformers need to remember three things...

First, this is not a political fight between Republicans and Democrats; it is a fight against 50-year trends toward statism. Second, it is a moral fight, not an economic one. Third, this is not a fight that anyone can win in the 15 months from now to the presidential election. It will take hard work for at least a decade.

Consider a few facts. . .

CARPE DIEM: AEI's Arthur Brooks on the Debt Ceiling in the WSJ