[calex59]

I've got news for these a**hats, the so called "Super Congress" can't do anything unless the rest of the legislature(both houses)votes on it. They can suggest things, just as any other member of the legislature can do but the deciding factor are the votes of the whole legislature.

This BS of acting as if this stupid committee has some degree of power more than the whole body is just that: BS. As for calling them the "Super Congress" I strongly object to that.

[Phlyer]

This BS of acting as if this stupid committee has some degree of power more than the whole body is just that: BS. As for calling them the "Super Congress" I strongly object to that.

Well, you can object all you want, but the bill they are about to pass says that the congress must accept or reject their 'recommendations' on how to achieve the cuts "as a whole." Do you really think that this committee - with Nancy Pelosi on it - won't add on all sorts of extraneous things that don't really have anything to do with budget cuts? After all, this bill itself is called, "TECHNICAL AMENDMENT TO EDUCATION SCIENCES REFORM ACT OF 2002." They'll tag on anything they want.

And then the Congress as a whole will have the choice of accepting everything they put in there, or gutting the Defense Department completely.

The whole point of the 'triggers' in this bill is to make it so painful to turn down the Committee "recommendations" that no one will be able to do it. Saying that this committee does not 'have some degree of power more than the whole body' is like saying that the Speaker does not 'have some degree of power' more than an average Congressman.

This committee has enormous power. It is comprised on the Dim side of ruthless statists and on the RINO side by spineless sycophants of the media.

As a sign of how bad things are going to be - in terms of the RINOS being forced to accept things that they don't want in order to keep from gutting Defense - if the triggers are tripped, the Dims win both ways!. On the one hand Defense gets cut way beyond anything rational in today's world - setting up the capitulation to other one-world statists in every confrontation to come along. On the other hand Doctors and Hospitals get stiffed on bills, setting up all sorts of horror stories on how "the poor, poor, pitiful poor" can't get medical care and so we need even more socialized medicine than Obamacare already has. You wanna bet that a year after the 'triggers' are tripped we don't have a 'public option' for medical care?

This bill is a nightmare, and the Committee has the unchecked power either to dictate terms to the rest of Congress or to gut Defense spending and pave the way for socialized medicine. They may not be a "Super Congress," but it's because they're worse than that. I think Politburo is closer.

[John S Mosby]

Agreed the “Super Congress” is a label ascribing powers to these extra-empowered people THAT ARE NOT THERE.

It would be nice if this labeling caused a constitutional crisis. As it is the “commission” enabling “law” is itself unconstitutional because of the verbage of the bill.

Hennesy has the details,and Freepers need to READ THE BILL that has been handed to the country.

Instead of playing into the hands of the “super congress” conservatives should point out that “the spending continues” and that dems and obama KNEW the Bush tax cuts will expire and STILL they demanded more taxes and “revenue”.
We HAVE TO STOP THIS-— COLD.