Steve Soto:

Memo to Dick Gephardt and Tom Daschle: this is how you run an opposition party operation. First you find out when your opponents are going to roll out their latest class warfare campaign disguised as a stimulus package. Then you plan to hit the media first with your own plan, developed by your highly respected point person on the budget, whom you have delegated the attack to. Then you watch the next news cycle pay as much attention to your critique of what the opposition is rolling out, as they do to what the opposition actually says.

Then you wait for sounds of Karl cursing the fact that the situation is different now than it was before.