PORKBUSTERS UPDATE: Here’s a Nashville story — with video — interviewing Blake Wylie on Tennessee pork and PorkBusters. Contact your local media and suggest they cover cuts in your area!

UPDATE: Could this be a sign of progress?

Republican leaders are taking pains to demonstrate a growing commitment to fiscal restraint one week after a contentious standoff with House conservatives over federal offsets to pay for recovery efforts in the hurricane-beleaguered Gulf Coast region. . . .

Unlike most years, GOP House and Senate leaders will offer a continuing resolution that temporarily funds the government at the lowest of three possible levels: the current fiscal 2005 level, or the level passed in either the House or the Senate appropriations bills this year, according to knowledgeable GOP aides.

Like the space elevator experiment below, it’s a baby step, but it’s a step.