You can disagree with the policy merits of the Rivlin-Ryan approach versus the rationing approach, but once again, there is no liberal plan on the table that rations care enough to balance the budget.
One night in 1986 he was having dinner in a Mexican restaurant when he noticed Al Hunt, the Wall Street Journal's resident liberal, sitting at another table with his wife and four-year-old son.
High up in the Staffordshire Moorlands in the village of Endon, Liberal Democrat candidate Christina Jebb has her campaign leaflets set out on the dining table.