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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Shame, shame, shame. This trio is abusive to our Constitution and to our military. NO TO JOHN KERRY!!!
This committee is about as legal as czars....
Don’t think for a mInute Obama didn’t have some input.
What??
Patty Murray is Reid's choice for co-chair and Boehner gets to choose who Murray's fellow co-chair will be.
No word yet on whether Patty Murray has located those day-care centers she claimed Osama Bin Laden had built for poor women in the Muslim world.
When he was told he needed to choose three members for a Super Committee, HE thought they said Stupor Committee, and... well, the rest is history...
Ok...my bad...sort of. Pretty fuzzy sentence structure.
As my old dad used to say (and still does, actually): “If the foo shits”
Okay Harry, I’ll see your 3 stooges and raise you with..................Rubio, Demint, Rand.
Here is a woman so blinkeringly stupid that she actually thought Osama bin Laden and the Taliban made DAY CARE CENTERS - you know so women could continue their education or work - except that if you tried to educate yourself or work - THEY KILL YOU!!!!
This committee is about as legal as czars....
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What? You have problems with a Royal Congress and a Congress of Commons?
Every lickspittle Party toadie, hack and wannabee in the media and even on this site said this was the BEST DEAL WE COULD GET at this time. You would doubt the word of so many wardheelers, especially since it was phrased the same way over and over? You would contest the honor of a fake tan metrosexual golf caddy? What could possibly go wrong from denying 38 states from effective representation?
Is this Constitutional?? To put so much power into the hands of such few?? What recourse do we, the voters, have?? It is ridiculous.
I have absolutely very little faith in the GOP to get this right.
>> This committee is about as legal as czars....
...and about as stupid as a soup sandwich.
What the hell was that jackass Boner thinking when he put THIS turkey of an idea together??!?
ObamaCare needs defunded and abolished.
Dodd/Frank bill needs abolished
The community reinvestment Act amendments are still in existence that caused the economic housing collapse. Abolish them.
Cut all salaries immediately of all the senate and congress, POTUS
Cut all pork and special interest
NO MORE LOBBIESTS
Downsize the EPA,IRS,DOE,DOEduc
Fire all of Obama’s czar's and their staff
CUT our ties to the UN
CEASE sending all countries and dictators billions
NO MORE POTUS campaigning on our dime
IMPEACH AND REMOVE OBAMA
is a start...
Boner needs to send three critters who voted against his Satan Sandwich.
One thing for sure, Baucus is very much a pro 2nd Ammendment senator. That said, he’s also an avowed, professional drunk!
“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...”
What? One of the best examples of masterful rhetorical mis-direction that I’ve ever seen.
Harry Reid super-committee picks PRICKS in place...
Your title had a spelling error so I fixed it for you...
I did a double-take on that line too. It is awkwardly written.
+1
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.
Yes it is a start but not a very big one. The problem is entitlement programs, namely Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.
Until you start making some serious cuts to these programs, you are just pushing around deck chairs.
Whoever has paid into it give them every cent owed up to date now and abolish it. I do not need the government gauging my pay check like nanny state only to get maybe 200 bucks towards a funeral and a few bucks a month. Get Obama the hell out of there so companies open up.I am sick to death of hearing about the fraud and abuse of medicaid/are.Look to the city of NOLA as an answer they have a hospital called charity hospital.Have one of these with a free clinic in it in every city/town.And do away with one of these programs.
ObamaCare is alive and kicking and it has death panels they don’t call it that but they are real I have seen it in two instances.I just heard a small company starting out trying to get health care say they are waiting as the costs went up 6% in just the last two weeks.Since ObamaCare no one can afford it.
http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2009/10/50-examples-of-government-waste
and go do a search of government gone wild and watch all the videos.
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