When referring to simultaneous tax increases and federal spending cuts, the most overused metaphor is "eat your vegetables."
ABC News' Jake Tapper went a different way to describe the situation on Comedy Central's Colbert Report last night. "You have to either cut off your arm or die," he said.
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