The ‘super commeittee’ needed to be selected like a jury is selected: each side gets to de-select (kick-off) the those on the other side.
If you did that, you'd end up with a 'super committee' of RINOs and DINOs. The Democrats would approve Lisa Murkowski, Mark Kirk, Mary Bono Mack, Leonard Lance, Rodney Frelinghuysen, Walter Jones, and Olympia Snowe to "represent" our side, and the Republicans would approve Joe Lieberman, Ben Nelson, Gabrielle Giffords (without aides to "help" her make decisions), Dan Lipinski, Jerry Costello, Heath Shuler, and Dan Boren to "represent" the 'RAT P.O.V. They'd come up with a "bipartisan" agreement all right, and it would worse than anything the two parties could come up with alone.