“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.
Exactly. I can't imagine why anybody on the GOP side thought for one minute that this was done for anything but show.
Yep...it was Obamas way to get the tax's raised he could not get any other way...and despite the congress. We knew this when the "arrangements" were made known what would be the end game if they didn't reach an agreement....which was the game plan agreement to not agree....so the end result would be...raise tax's..cut the military....done deal. All the rest was just a show.