State Treasurer Richard Mourdock visited with the editorial board yesterday as part of his primary campaign challenge to Sen. Richard Lugar. Mourdock outlined his bold (Lugar says "not serious") propsal to cut $7.6 trillion in spending over 10 years. The plan includes eliminating four Cabinet-level departments, trumping Rick Perry by one -- and Mourdock had no trouble remembering them all, Commerce, Education, Energy and Housing & Urban Development. I even threw in two more that wouldn't bother me -- Homeland Security and Veterans Affairs -- and he acknowledged they could be ones to think about, too. See, this government-cutting business isn't so tough if you get into the spirit of the thing.
Here's the video I shot, giving him two questions to answer: 1. Explain your $7.6 trillion plan and, 2. What happens if we don't do something this drastic?
