Posted on 08/10/2011 7:24:40 AM PDT by yoe
n the first of what will be a closely watched selection process for a powerful new deficit panel, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announced he will appoint Democratic Sens. Patty Murray (Wash.), Max Baucus (Mont.) and John Kerry (Mass.) as his three choices for a super committee charged with finding more than $1 trillion in spending cuts by the end of this year.
Murray will serve as co-chair of the 12-member panel. Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) will select her co-chair and two other panelists, as required by the debt limit agreement signed into law by President Barack Obama last week. Minority Leaders Nancy Pelosi and Mitch McConnell will each select three additional members.
“The Joint Select Committee has been charged with forging the balanced, bipartisan approach to deficit reduction that the American people, the markets and rating agencies like Standard and Poor’s are demanding,” Reid said in a statement. “To achieve that goal, I have appointed three senators who each posses an expertise in budget matters, a commitment to a balanced approach and a track record of forging bipartisan consensus.”
Reid’s three picks are loyal to the majority leader and are intended to show the Nevada Democrat is serious about forging a bipartisan deal to head off $1.2 trillion in spending cuts required under the debt deal. The super committee was Reid’s contribution to the bipartisan agreement to end the debt limit fight.
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pro 2nd Amendment senator
I stuttered when I typed....
Those were my exact choices last night!
Kerry understands 'smearing' and how to do it....both he and Jane Fonda should have been shot for their treason...Kerry is elected and it is a disgrace to have such a man representing God fearing and if not that, honest Americans.
My choice is to have gridlock and pull the automatic triggers.
And Patty Murray is only saved from being the dumbest person in Congress by the fact that Sheila Jackson Lee and Maxine waters keep getting elected somehow.
What the hell was that jackass Boner thinking when he put THIS turkey of an idea together??!?
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He is a crybaby idiot. The GOP is no better than the DNC. Kick them all out.
No good will come of this, none whatsoever. The GOP darn well better learn once and for all that they are on the wrong side of the Joseph Goebbles Drive By Lame Stream Media.
What the hell was that jackass Boner thinking when he put THIS turkey of an idea together??
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Oh and you are assuming that this was his idea. He took credit for it, for all we know it was Barry Soetoro’s idea. Maybe the day they had their little gold outing, Barry suggested it. Boehner the crybaby fell for it.
What the hell was that jackass Boner thinking when he put THIS turkey of an idea together??
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Oh and you are assuming that this was his idea. He took credit for it, for all we know it was Barry Soetoro’s idea. Maybe the day they had their little golf outing, Barry suggested it. Boehner the crybaby fell for it.
What the hell was that jackass Boner thinking when he put THIS turkey of an idea together??
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Oh and you are assuming that this was his idea. He took credit for it, for all we know it was Barry Soetoro’s idea. Maybe the day they had their little golf outing, Barry suggested it. Boehner the crybaby fell for it.
They were already picked before the deal was publicalized.
so? doesn’t make the Kerry history of perjury any less disgusting or treasonous.
In response to the outrage of the Democrats picking three revolutionaries, the Republicans are going to demonstrate to the country how resonible they are and put only Olympia Snowe on the committee and give here two votes so she doesn’t dominate the Democrats.
Bring back the tenants and methods of the French Revolution!!!
My choice is to have gridlock and pull the automatic triggers.
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This is the safest bet in D.C. given our recent history. Congress has proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that they are incapable of making tough decisions. A debt deal that did not mention entitlements (largest expenditures) should not have been called a debt deal.
Isn’t the safest bet that the Rs cave and propose raising taxes?
Never said it did.
“This committee is about as legal as czars....”
Our version of the soviet politboro.
They don’t have any power. They will just sit around a table trying to see which side can out-bullshit the other. Nothing real will come of it. Just feel-good politician posturing. The really sad thing is...everybody, including themselves, knows it beforehand.
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