The national debt is 15 hours away from careening into its ceiling. Luckily, a vote on the debt deal is only three hours away from hitting the Senate, and the AP reports that the legislation is "virtually assured" to pass. President Obama has promised to sign it into law, and from there ... the budget cuts begin. The New York Times sifts through the confusion swirling around the specifics of the cuts (noting that there are "so few details" in the deal), and tries to get a handle on who will bear the brunt of them.