Posted on 08/11/2011 8:47:49 PM PDT by Nachum
Some Democratic members of the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, tasked with identifying $1.5 trillion in spending cuts, have become the subject of criticism, but their appointments were only finalized Thursday. Sen. Patty Murray of Washington, and Reps. James Clyburn of South Carolina and Xavier Becerra of California are already being targeted for circumstances that could compromise their abilities to negotiate. Becerra, for example, wasted no time before using his appointment as a fundraising tool for his own campaign.
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Gingrich was right, “This committee is stupid!”
No surprise the rats are using this for political advantage.
ditto.
No demonrat or other leftist should ever be given any voice in anything.
The RINOs who agreed to this are traitors as surely as that American Taliban scum.
You have got to be kidding me! Patty Murray is widely recognized as one of the dimmest bulbs in the Senate, and I don’t think she has ever turned down the chance to increase gov’t. spending. Her appointment just makes a joke out of the super committee.
I have noticed Patty on many occasions when it is a photo op for Harry Reid, she will always be about 5 inches away from him in the photo..just saying.....
I have noticed Patty on many occasions when it is a photo op for Harry Reid, she will always be about 5 inches away from him in the photo..just saying.....
Well, Patty is a real trooper that is for sure...if she were to lose her seat, she is unemployable.
Newt nailed it, the super committee is nothing but a political ploy. Got to hand it to him. Wish he did not have as much baggage as a safari.
And dangerous. Do I remember correctly, that the POTUS casts the tiebreaking vote on a deadlocked supercommittee? And deadlock will be the norm, with 12 partisan ideologues (6 D's and 6 R's) on the committee. With that one deciding vote, POTUS can control whether any bill reaches the floor for debate (as long as the 6 supercommittee members from his party vote as a bloc). Basically, the Executive branch (POTUS) is now in control of the Legislative branch of gov't, a massive expansion of the power of the Presidency. That's a bad idea, IMHO, no matter what party the POTUS happens to be a member of.
Also, some other Freepers have pointed out that any third party congressmen will be excluded from the supercommittee; we are locked into a two-party system.
One more thought: with 12 members only on the supercommittee, there are at least 38 states unrepresented. Didn't we fight a war over that, long ago?
The Three Stooges, or “TweedleDee, TweedleDumb, and TweedleDummer”.
It is a mess, I don’t understand all you do about it. Where I left the committee is that if they can’t reach a decision the automatic provisions of cuts kick in with 50% of the cuts aimed at the military... bad deal though the military spends wastefully.
The sob’s can’t even agree on where to eat lunch. They didn’t even nominate the group with the best chance of doing something, the gang of six, though I don’t like them either.
I think the whole committee idea is not only dumb it is unconstitutional.
Not to worry. Nothing the gummint does is relevant any longer. There is no money. They have two options “let it go to zero” or hyperinflation. If they let things zero they have no money which equals no power. If they hyper inflate the money they play with is useless. Again no power. Our gummint is a “Debt Man Walking”.
I’m so disgusted with this.
Fred Upton’s certainly wasted no time touting his new clout. On his Facebook page he links to this editorial:
From The Detroit News: http://detnews.com/article/20110811/OPINION01/108110341/Camp—Upton-bring-level-heads-to-Super-Committee#ixzz1UnDjyu1e
(Gannett paper so link only)
Michigan has two representatives on the committee: Camp and Upton.
fundraising tool = freezer money
“The RINOs who agreed to this are traitors as surely as that American Taliban scum”
Boy...... dsc, that’s a little harsh. But I agree 100% and it’s important to state as such. Well said. We The People are fighting on many fronts, the Dems, the commies, the FAR leftie community organizers plus the RINOS and the establishment DC moroons. I for one just want my country back.
The editorial is stupid though.
Jobs should be a primary focus of the Super Committee.
In no way, shape, or form is "jobs" on the table for the super committee. It's tasked only with finding more trillions in offsets (via "cuts" or "revenues") over 10 years. Nothing more, nothing less.
The Detroit News editorial board should be fired.
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