One of the things I've said, only half-jokingly, to a bunch of radio stations and in numerous posts (including just a couple of days ago) is that I am not a religious person but I get down on my hands and knees every day and pray, pray, pray that the Catfood Commission II fails miserably and we can drive a stake in the heart--for now--of this new phony version of "bi-partisanship". When you sing from the same song sheet of AUSTERITY FOR THE MASSES it isn't bi-partisan. It's a unified voice of "let's screw the people who had nothing to do with the sorry mess of our nation's economy".
And it's also very dumb economics--unless, of course, you could not give a rat's ass about the 99 percent. Paul Krugman has something to say about that today, part of which I agree with, part of which I don't agree with.