I think it's sort of the combination of 'West Wing' and 'Seinfeld.' We meet once a week, but nothing happens,

I'm an enormous fan of 'The West Wing.' It was one of the very few shows I would watch every week.

Their plan leaves nothing for Medicare -- not one penny. It explodes in costs just as the Baby Boomers start to retire and Medicare and Social Security come under pressure. It fails to take advantage of this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to pay down our debt, to prepare for this coming demographic tidal wave,

I think it undermines the fragile coalition that we have with our allies,

They're rolling a dice and in my view they're going to come up the big losers, ... They think there is some political resonance in this but that's not what I hear.

Obviously, given the level of his dissatisfaction, you would think they would have picked up on it and maybe done something constructive with it,