Glenn Kessler Makes a Reasonable Point About What's Serious and What's Not

Glenn Kessler, the Washington Post's fact checker, wrote a column yesterday that tried to judge whether President Obama's proposal to replace the sequester was truly a serious plan. Brendan Nyhan, in the course of criticizing Kessler for addressing a matter of opinion like this, points out that Kessler makes a distinction between two kinds of plans: The first is whether each side has created a specific budget proposal that includes enough new revenue and/or budget cuts to avoid sequestration. Th...