Kevin Hassett provides the factoid of the day: "Extrapolating out the 2007 CBO forecast, our government plans to spend about $5.6 trillion more between 2009 and 2018 than was projected to be spent when the Democrats took over control of Congress." Samuelson and Continetti are on the same page. Allahpundit: Hope and change: GOP even with Dems in party affiliation for first time since 2005 Rasmussen: 43% Say CIA May Have Misled Pelosi, 41% Disagree The liberal Catholic magazine America is unimpressed with Obama's Notre Dame speech.