Dems Mock Latest GOP Super Committee Offer

[stevedeshazer]

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/11/dems-mock-latest-gop-super-committee-offer.php?ref=fpa_beta

After multiple meetings Friday, Democrats publicly excoriated a fall-back offer by Super Committee Republicans to cut 10-year deficits by over $600 billion. And for the first time, Democratic members are publicly casting doubt on the panel’s chances to meet its Wednesday deadline.

Partisan tempers flared over how Democrats and Republicans describe the offer, which includes a trivial amount of new tax revenue, but doesn’t touch entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare.

Only $3 billion of the total package comes from new tax revenues — ending a tax preferences for owners of corporate jets. The rest came from spending cuts to federal agencies, federal pay, agricultural subsidies, higher fees and spectrum and land sales, and interest saved on the national debt.

Democratic aides mocked the plan as wildly imbalanced — a 200:1 spending cuts-to-tax revenue offer Republicans never should have made. That counts land and spectrum sales as spending cuts, which they really aren’t.

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[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. The Republicans will be justly blamed for the failure.

I take only a small bit of cold comfort from this.

[stevedeshazer]

2. I don't know for sure, CPeg, but I'd bet you didn't vote for a "Super Committee".

I sure as hell didn't.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. You got that right: I did NOT.

I was pretty horrified when I heard about this group.

Nothing like putting our fate into the hands of 12 people! :scared:

That's way too much power in the hands of a very select few.

[TheWraith]

5. The so-called "super committee" doesn't actually have any real power.

All they could do (if they could even bring themselves to do it) would be to present a package of recommendations to the full Congress. The "super committee" myth that supposedly they can do ANYTHING besides that on their own is simply not true.

[Response]

6. Well, in the Gore v Bush election the nation *put its fate into the hands of

9 people and look at the wonderful results there.

*By put I mean was forced into.

[rgbecker]

4. I support letting them fail, provided Congress doesn't go back on the deal.

Across the board cuts including the department of Defense but not "Entitlements' (SS and Medicare) sound like a solution that combined with Obama's promise to end the Bush tax cuts might bring some sanity to the Federal Budget.

Will Congress actually cut Department of Defense? Do bears shit in porta potties?

I don't think so.