The Democratic alternative offers a very different set of priorities. Guns vs. butter. Tax cuts vs. Medicare. School vouchers vs. arts grants. Star Wars vs. Head Start.
People can choose.
That's nothing but mush. Or perhaps a radical- middle budget is something higher and transcendent. If so, it is so lofty that no one can as yet discern it. Perhaps it is mix and match. Colin Powell fancies a facile marriage of Democratic social compassion with Republican fiscal conservatism.