A simply stated question: What was Alan Simpson appointed to the deficit commission?

[Stinky The Clown]

I will avoid the "catfood commission" appellation. In this thread, let's not go there.

So why Simpson? I can honestly say I can't imagine why.

[sandnsea]

1. He can't keep his foot out of his mouth? n/t

[TheKentuckian]

2. To take the heat

[lob1]

3. I think the administration has already decided to

cut S.S., so they appoint people to the commission that will do that job. What other reason can there be?

[valerief]

5. Sounds like a typical Republocrat move to me. nt

[jannyk]

6. +1!!!!

It's the same MO that left Universal Healthcare and Public Option champions off of the Health Insurance 'Reform' commission.

:mad:

[Make7]

4. I believe he was appointed as the co-chair of the commission. ( n/t )

[Stinky The Clown]

7. That's the answer to "what". The question was "why".

[Make7]

15. I must have misread the title of the thread. ( n/t )

[Stinky The Clown]

16. I'm chuckling. You read it right. I just realized I miswrote it!

Doh!

[jgraz]

8. Because Obama was tired of people saying Tim Geithner was his worst appointment?

:shrug:

[Dragonfli]

9. Neither can I . I await a reasonable response to a very good question /nt

[pscot]

10. I'm relly glad you chose not to mention the Catffood

Commission. There's a one-word answer to the question: bi-fucking-partisanship.

[QC]

11. To be Bad Cop. n/t

[Skittles]

12. to do precisely what he is doing

[xchrom]

13. Simpson & bowles sitting in a tree - k-i-s-s-I-n-g

They essentially - it's ironing out the details.

[bbgrunt]

14. stupidity or evil, take your pick.