Sure, at least I'll cling to one small snippet of optimism--the Repubs were dealing in good faith when they helped set up a committee that supposedly had the power to come up with some small cuts over the upcoming months.  However, and this is where the pessemism comes in, those GOP boneheads should have been smarter than to be part and parcel to a doomed-to-fail negotiation that would result in disproportionate defense cuts when, and this is where it gets really sad, your opposition WANTED TO CUT DEFENSE ALL ALONG!

The Good Lord in Heaven must be shaking his head at the stupidity of mankind.