Ygleasias looks at David Brooks trying to criticize the CPC's budget and failing.

The biggest problem the liberal faction of the Democratic Party generally has is getting heard at all, so I'm really glad that David Brooks dedicated a column to explaining his problems with the Congressional Progressive Caucus budget that was released last Thursday. In a way, I think Brooks' complaints make the case for the CPC budget more strongly than any of the praise I've read.

Long story short, I would say the CPC budget has the following main advantages over the Ryan budget:

• More food and medical care for poor children.
  
• Less air pollution and a meaningful chance to avert the worst consequences of climate change.
  
• Lower taxes on middle-class and working-poor families.
  
• Medicare reform focused on reducing the unit price of health care services rather than increasing it.
  
• More funding for transportation infrastructure and basic research.

Brooks says the Ryan budget has the following main advantages over the CPC budget:

• High-income individuals will be less inclined to take vacations or retire and more inclined to work long hours.