"I think this super committee is about as dumb an idea as Washington has come up with in my lifetime," Gingrich said. "I used to run the House of Representatives. I have some general notion of these things. The idea that 523 senators and congressmen are going to sit around for four months while 12 brilliant people, mostly picked for political reasons, are going to sit in some room and brilliantly come up with a trillion dollars, or force us to choose between gutting our military and accepting a tax increase, is irrational."They're going to walk in just before Thanksgiving and say, 'All right, we can shoot you in the head or cut off your right leg, which do you prefer?'" he added. "What they ought to do is scrap the committee right now, recognize it's a dumb idea, go back to regular legislative business, assign every subcommittee the task of finding savings. Do it out in the open through regular legislative order and get rid of this secret phony business."
Gingrich is a poor prophet if he thinks the Congress is able to making “savings” through the regular approach. It can not and will not. The best of all possible alternatives now for conservatives (at least if they truly want cuts) to pull the triggers and let sequestration take place. I know that there are some here who view the Pentagon as a sacred cows....but they need to realize that we’re broke and that there CAN NOT be any sacred cows on the spending side.
“They’re going to walk in just before Thanksgiving and say, ‘All right, we can shoot you in the head or cut off your right leg, which do you prefer?’” he added. “What they ought to do is scrap the committee right now, recognize it’s a dumb idea, go back to regular legislative business, assign every subcommittee the task of finding savings. Do it out in the open through regular legislative order and get rid of this secret phony business.”
Amen to what Newt said. I cannot believe the GOP members of congress was foolish enough to agree to the “poison pill” arrangement of this “super committee.” The Dems never intended to act in good faith. Failure was pre-ordained. They wanted DoD to be destroyed. Now they have the means to acceive it.