Paterson's conversion cut the gap to 14 points, but the entertainment value dimmed after that as bothsides were let down by some sloppy play in wet conditions.
The cuts were intended to be so unpopular that bothsides would be motivated to negotiate a broader deficit reduction package rather than let them get implemented.
Known in Washington jargon as sequestration, the cuts were intended to be so unpopular that bothsides would be motivated to negotiate a broader deficit reduction package rather than let them get implemented.
This budget was, as usual, a triumph of short-termism, in which politicians on bothsides proclaimed their disciplined determination to reach budget balance by 2002, only to let the figures rip thereafter.