Obviously, lawmakers on the other side of the aisle are attacking you.

And they characterize the approach as this.

Fire, ready, and then aim.

And how do you approach that?

How do you respond to that?

Well, I do agree that we actually want to be careful in the cuts.

So we want to measure twice,

if not thrice, and cut once.

And actually, that is our approach.

They may characterize it as shooting from the hip, but it is anything about that, which is

not to say that we don't make mistakes.

If we would approach this with the

standard of making no mistakes at all, that would be like saying someone in baseball has got

to bat a thousand. That's impossible. So when we do make mistakes, we correct them quickly,

and we move on. Well, first, a correction.

Willier-Abreu with the Red Sox is batting a thousand.

So there are some people who bat a thousand.

Red Sox want to know, by the way, friends, just in case anybody wants to know.

That matters.

But what a difference a few months make, right?

Mm-hmm.

I mean, sitting there going, you know, measure twice, cut once.

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