Hey, forget about all that budget-balancing stuff I’ve been writing about: All we really need is a historically atypical high rate of growth, schools that suddenly are an order of magnitude better than the ones we have, and the enactment of nine-tenths of the conservative economic agenda. It’s all so obvious.

If I were the head of something called the George W. Bush institute, I would not make fiscal policy my opening gambit.

Economic growth. Why didn’t I think of that?