Crude cut, where congress can't control exactly what is going to be cut where and by how much. and here is what the defense spending cliff looks like on january 1st. some democrats might be okay with us going off this cliff on defense spending. i, for one, would have no problem with it. but no republican wants to see us go off the cliff on defense spending. congressional republicans are already in a bit of a panic about the defense spending cliff, and that's why they had dick cheney come up to see them yesterday. dick cheney was there, not as a former vice president, giving them presidential c...