Catfood Commission's Final Report -- What Happens Now?

[ProudDad]

http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/372454/catfood_commission%27s_final_report_--_what_happens_now/

The catfood commission has released the final report pdf, and will vote on it Friday. It hasn't substantially changed from the chairs' mark preemptively released by Simpson and Bowles a couple of weeks ago. It still has the disastrous ratio 2:1 ratio of spending cuts to revenue increases, includes a payroll tax holiday (reducing further Social Security's take), a regressive tax structure and arbitrary spending caps. AP sums it up}
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[joeybee12]

1. Absolutely phucking amazing...cut taxes for the top to rein in the deficit...

what phucking morans.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

2. NOTHING!

Absolutely fucking nothing - which is what everyone *not* calling it the Catfood Commission has tried to express since its inception. It. Has. No. Power!

[ProudDad]

3. Don't be so sure...

Looks like they only need to twist 3 arms on the Cat Food Commission...

And they can recommend their "solution" to Congress...

And of course, whether they "recommend it" or not, their "solution" will be put into a law next January in the House...

And the blue-dog fucks in the Senate would join the republicans and vote for it...

[dionysus]

4. no, they had to vote on it today. the commission is officialy debanded after midnight,

regardless of how they vote on friday.

[bluestateguy]

5. Most likely?

It won't get the 14 votes to advance and that will be that.

Or it will get the votes to advance and then be ignored in the House.

Either way nobody will be talking about this silly commission a month from now.