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Take the now-retired Paul Simon of Illinois, who took a courageous position in support of the balanced-budget amendment and held to it consistently--even in 1995, when the Democrats were one vote short, and wouldn't have succeeded in defeating the amendment without the help of Republican Mark Hatfield.
As a member of the House, he had voted in favor of the balanced-budget amendment, in the same version he now opposes, three different times.
The overarching purpose of a balanced-budget agreement is, presumably, to balance the budget.
The balanced-budget constitutional amendment appears to be dead.
The good news about the near future will be bad news for the long run if it leads the president and Congress to put forward a plausible balanced-budget plan without beginning the dramatic Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security reforms that are required to avoid an economic catastrophe soon after 2010, when baby boomers will retire.