NON-SHOCKING HEADLINE OF THE DAY: Balanced Budget Amendment Mirroring 1995 Effort Fails to Get Two-Thirds in House.

Plus: “Our extraordinary fiscal crisis demands an extraordinary solution,” says sponsor Goodlatte as CBO projects deficit spending will increase $11.7 trillion over the next decade.

And that’s without a recession or a major shooting war or some other crisis — which is an awfully long time to go without at least one or two of the three.