Just where will this new Super Committee of Congressional Budget-Cutters come up with more than a trillion bucks in federal spending savings, as mandated by that Grand Bargain reached by Congress this summer to raise the federal government debt ceiling?
Conservatives are irate because so-called “discretionary spending” budget cuts are not spelled out. Tea Partiers in particular assert if you can’t pin down old school pols, they’ll figure a way to weasel out of painful program cuts.