Michael Scherer says that Washington is "pointing a gun to the knee caps of corporate lobbyists for the defense contracting and medical provider communities and saying, 'Help us, or else'":
[T]o save their own skin, military contractors, who spent $146 million lobbying Congress in 2010 with more than $16 million in political donations from PACs, will have to get in the game, urging Republicans to find savings in other places. In practice, that will likely mean new revenue, collected by ending corporate tax breaks and eliminating expenditures. If the plan works as Democrats would like, Republicans will be forced to raise taxes with the help of the military industrial complex.
The Dish 