In Washington we have print evidence of an attempt at nuance gone terribly awry. According to House Minority Leader, Democrat Nancy Pelosi, the White House's budget cuts too much because it doesn't cut enough:
[T]he President's budget cuts funding for first-responders and forces veterans to pay more for the health care they have earned. It is an American value to promote safe communities, but the President's budget slashes community policing initiatives. It is an American value to promote opportunity, but the President's budget eliminates 48 education initiatives and slashes funding for health care....It does nothing to address the record deficit of $427 billion.
Also in the offing are various theories that the problem is the president's Social Security proposal, which hasn't even been submitted to Congress; war expenditures that have not been a part of budgets since 2001, with little complaint; and the president's 2001 and 2003 tax cuts, which carry the distinction of having unshackled the economy and increased relative revenues since their enaction.
The Democratic Party, showing less consonance than a blindfolded, inebriated gorilla playing "Flight of the Bumblebee" with cherry popsicles on a xylophone facing backwards, while suspended from the ceiling of an operational wind tunnel.