I've seen no evidence that was his intent or expectations. He's smart enough to know that an appointed committee that has been charged with reducing the deficit is not going to consider a 999 Plan when it's expected to report in less than a month. He has said he would like to see the plan implemented, but he is aware that a major change like that could not even begin until he is in office.
I don’t know how you can say you’ve seen no evidence. I provided you a direct link to Cain’s plan on the Herman Cain website, which SAYS what I’m telling you.
So THAT is the evidence. It’s in his plan. His plan says that the 9-9-9 proposal needs to be passed by the supercommittee, and the supercommittee finishes it’s work next month. So the plan must be passed by next month.
And you are right, he should KNOW that they won’t do that. But his plan CALLED for them to do that.
Which gets us to my very argument — that since Cain PROPOSED that a supercommittee do something that it clearly won’t do, and CAIN is doing nothing to try to get them to do it, and it is supposed to be the implementation of his plan, it seems Cain is not all that serious about his plan.
That was my argument — Cain has a plan, supposedly serious. In his proposal, he says he will implement the plan by getting the supercommittee to pass it, but he has done nothing to make that happen, so his plan will not be implemented.
Of course, I suspect he’ll just ignore he ever said that, and move on. But I just accessed that information today, so as of 10/19/2011, the Herman Cain website still has a PDF of his economic proposal that claims he will get the supercommittee to pass the 9-9-9 plan.