President Obama’s budget for Fiscal Year 2012 arrived with much fanfare this week, but it landed with a thud for Congressional Republicans and a surprising number of moderate and liberal commentators. So did Obama make a better case as the week progressed or did more time just show the plan is not up to the challenge of addressing our enormous debt? How should we read the protests building in several Middle East nations? How is Jay Carney doing as Obama’s new press secretary? And how should we judge the tenure of former spokesman Robert Gibbs? We discuss it all with John Gizzi of Human Events.