Hopefully, We Can Unfrack This in the Conference Committee

So, based on my not so informed analysis, what the Senate now has a deal on sucks. It appears that the only criteria used by those "wise people" in the middle was what had extensive lobbying support.

Cuts:

• Aid to states.
• Education funding.

Kept or increased:

• More tax cuts.
• Increased funding on the census. (Like that's going to help now?)
  
• Subsidies for digital TV receivers. (Whiskey tango foxtrot)?
• More tax cuts.
• The $15,000 house flipping tax credit.

Total spending is down by around ¼, and tax cuts are up.

Without some Republican style shenanigans in the conference committee (how about stripping out all the tax cuts?) this will really suck.