Mark Sanford says he's making the case for John McCain here, but I don't quite buy it:

The Congressional Budget Office makes an important observation:

Under the President’s proposals, the deficit would steadily diminish from 2009 through 2012, at which point the budget would be balanced; it would remain close to balance in most years through 2018.

Well, that's good news! It's great to see that fiscal sanity has returned to the --

It appears that some generals want to keep buying big, expensive equipment that might have little use in the wars we actually fight: