Last evening I was entertained by flipping TV channels between Fox News and MSNBC for right and left, conservative and liberal, reactions to The Great Debt Ceiling Debate of 2011.
Conservatives are upset because billions if not trillions of dollars in so-called “discretionary spending” budget cuts are not itemized, or spelled out. They want to know exactly what programs will get hammered? Especially it is the Tea Partiers who believe that if you can’t pin down old school pols, they’ll figure a way to weasel out of painful program cuts down the road.