The reality is no one knows how much it will cost us to wage war with Iraq.

It's the combination of massive tax cuts combined with massive spending on Iraq and Katrina when we already weren't able to pay our bills,

I'm against this war, I'm against the torture. We're doing this for the people of Iraq.

I believe they have an affirmative obligation to come up with spending cuts or new revenue to prevent us from raiding the Medicare and Social Security trust funds,

It will make tax controversies more expensive, more intrusive and more inconvenient for taxpayers.

The Congressional Budget Office tells us by 2052, Social Security could meet only 78 percent of its obligations. Medicare is in even worse shape. The shortfall in Medicare is eight times the deficit in Social Security. But the president has no plan to deal with that. The truth is, we need to confront all these challenges sooner rather than later.