When reading the White House deficit commission's report, one gets the sense that authors Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles are tired of wrestling with 900-pound gorillas, of fiscal problems so Brobdingnagian that the wise course among America's political elite has been to pretend they do not exist. But the bipartisan pair cannot quite bring themselves to say what now needs saying: that for our sake, these gorillas must die. Simpson and Bowles offer several worthy ideas for attacking the debt and entitlement problems plaguing the United States. Acknowledging that "federal health care spending represents our single largest fiscal challenge over...