When Democratic wunderkinds Mark Warner and Jim Webb start agreeing with veteran conservative Republican congressman Frank Wolf, something’s up. Our guess is that the recent Republican sweep of all three statewide offices in Virginia less than a year after the commonwealth went bonkers for Barack Obama is having a salutatory effect.

Both senators are now supporting Wolf’s SAFE (Securing America’s Future Economy) Commission Act, which the Northern Virginia Republican first introduced in the spring of 2006. It sets up a bipartisan commission similar to the Base Realignment and Closure Commission that will finally force Congress to deal with the spending and entitlement crises.