Reply #70: "His concern

[Jakes Progress]

-- which progressives widely share -- is that Republicans will refuse to raise a penny of revenue, particularly from wealthy Americans, and leave the Committee's Democrats to pick between significant entitlement cuts or the trigger penalty, which would fall most heavily on Medicare providers and national defense."

I'm a progressive, and I share that concern. Actually it is less a concern than a dread feeling of certainty that this is exactly what will happen. And the Democrats that don't cave immediately will be hounded by the third way centrists in the congress and the administration to fall in line.