'Mother-Rapers, Father-Stabbers, ... Father-Rapers...'

Thus spake Arlo Guthrie in Alice's Restaurant about the alleged criminals sitting on the Group W bench with him. I think it better describes the Catfood Commission (see post just upstream) and especially its co-chairs, Erskine Bowles and Montgomery Burns... excuse me, I mean Alan Simpson. For preliminary details of the ways they propose to come after us with fiscal machetes, please read this article by Megan Carpenter of TPM. And don't forget... President Obama set them the task.