Another case where the deal is bad enough that both sides find it awful. In fact, the only people appearing to support the deal right now are the very “leaders” who negotiated it in the first place.

Actually, Grijalva’s objections here are misleading. He says he wants a deal involving both tax hikes and (small) spending cuts (inevitably to programs like defense).

But that’s just what the deal does. It establishes a super-commission that will inevitably hike taxes. And if Republicans reject those tax hikes, they’ll be punished by an automatic gutting of national defense.

Not wanting to leave the nation unable to defend itself, Republicans will be forced to accept whatever tax hikes the super-commission proposes.

Meanwhile, there’s absolutely no entitlement reform and we hike the debt ceiling another $2.8 trillion.

Progressives really have nothing to dislike about this bill, except for the fact it postpones tax hikes for a few weeks. That’s about it. Our issues are with the very policies; theirs are over the timeline.