Geez...so far it is just a panel thing that Washington does all the time. Bush cut taxes and Obama cut taxes, in the stimulus bill but neither of them have cut spending. Bush had off the books funding for the wars, the popular socialist Medicare Prescription drug plan for seniors and TARP. Obama is still funding the wars and had the stimulus package.

They all spend like drunken sailors.

And I would say under the circumstances the Changey Hopey thing is going about as well as the old guy and the hockey mom would be doing.