Ten, nine, eight, seven.....

     The ten day countdown is on to the deadline imposed on the congressional "super-committee" tasked with massive federal  budget cuts.
     Read this morning's L.A. Times story about the prospects for success, and you may throw your hands up in the air in despair.
     It is beginning to look like even the bullet-proof design of the committee can and will fail...such is the division of these Un-United States.