Even Democrats can’t defend President Obama’s budgetary monstrosity with a straight face. Former Clinton chief of staff Erskine Bowles said it’s “nowhere near where they will have to go to resolve our fiscal nightmare.” As co-chair of the president’s deficit commission, Bowles recommended $4 trillion in savings over the next decade in order to (narrowly) avoid financial armageddon. Obama’s response? One fourth of that — an estimated $1.1 trillion in deficit reduction over ten years. And we’ll see what happens to that number once the CBO takes a closer look.

But someone’s got to defend it, right? How will supporters of the budget respond?

From the Senate Democratic Policy and Communications Committee, via Twitter:

Reporters at @EricCantor’s briefing. Hope you’re asking why he didn’t speak out against Prez Bush as he increased the deficit in 1st term. [emphasis added]