FRED THOMPSON on the Deficit Commission proposal. I haven't read the proposal in depth - yet - but my feeling is similar: "Finally! Something real to discuss."

That said, this comment by rightwingyahoo is revealing of the discussions to come: "The geezers can yell all they want, but the cuts are coming…."

That's a bad assumption, and there are plenty of bad assumptions on both sides of the political divide. I'm a "geezer" - 66, starting social security and Medicare - and I'm "yelling" because I desperately want Medicare/social security cut/reformed. Not for me - it's way too late to improve my lot - but for my kids and grandkids. Without reform, they will be buried in irrecoverable debt.