Over at Downsizing the Federal Government, we focused on the following issues this week:

• Unfortunately, the president’s Fiscal Commission appears to have operated on the premise that the federal government should continue to do everything it now does.
• Getting Rep. Jeff Flake on appropriations is a step in the right direction, but his appointment can’t be a token gesture.
• A new study finds that policymakers needn’t fear spending cuts.
• House Republican leaders’ support for “Prince of Pork” Hal Rogers to chair the chamber’s appropriations committee is a slap in the face of voters who demanded change in November.
• Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm, whose state’s unemployment rate is almost 13 percent, has advice for Washington on how to create jobs. No, it’s not April 1st.