March 23, 2011 - 7:00pm

One way to judge the merits of the budget Barack Obama unveiled this week is by the comments of his political allies. "It's not enough to focus primarily on the nonsecurity discretionary part of the budget," said Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad.
Political pundits of a certain stripe have been lamenting the disappearance of Republican moderates for years. It's time now to lament the disappearance of moderate Democrats.