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Wonkbook: The ‘supercommittee’ is not really super

Posted on September 15, 2011 by TRP

 

 

So pity the poor members of the supercommittee, who are being asked to be all things to all people, and who are inevitably going to fail. Some of them, in fact, are already trying to prepare the rest of Washington to be disappointed. In today’s edition of The Hill, Alexander Bolton reports that a “key lawmaker” on the committee is privately signaling that there won’t be a grand bargain emerging out of the process. Congress lacks consensus on issues like Medicare spending, tax increases, and defense cuts, and so too does the supercommittee, which, as you may remember, is made up of members of the very Congress that has repeatedly failed to strike a bargain of this type.

via Wonkbook: The ‘supercommittee’ is not really super – The Washington Post.

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