With the elections now over and a good many of us having performed our most fundamental act of national service in casting a ballot, the largest and most immediate challenge facing the New-Boss-Same-as-the-Old-Boss is the so-called "fiscal cliff" and the possibility -- if not probability -- of massive cuts to the federal budget under sequestration. The defense part of this is a great example of what the late writer John W. Gardner observed when secretary of Health, Education and Welfare in the mid-1960s: "We are all faced with a series of great opportunities -- brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems."
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