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?
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”.
Michigan has two representatives on the committee: Camp and Upton.