I propose the Federal Government to be sacked; and given a mere toke role expressing the collective ( majority ) desires of the soveriegn states within the union…. and whatever the federal government drops as far as public services, the states can handle at their resident’s discretion.

Perhaps a ‘super committee’ could then do the bidding of their representatives in their states, and delegate the people’s will from the bottom up, and not from the top of somewhere else down.

Incomprehensible for those who like the truth, and who actually read what the Constitution states…. all these heads will be on a stick soon enough, either literally or figuratively. 

The further advancement of empire and its tyrannical ways, the further entrenchment of those who would rather die ( and hold their 2nd Amendment right ) than live in a corporate police state.

It is incomprehensible that the Honorable Senator
Bernie Sanders from Vermont was not selected.

So do folks NOW believe the communisto-esque element stemming from the privately owned FED on down to the managerial class who uphold the hegemony ( now called the council of 13 )?

This is yet another clear departure from the Constitution ( but who’s counting ). 

Where is today’s Napoleon ( I know, he metaphorically lost his head after attaining absolute power )? 

Or today’s Maximus Decimus Meridius ( I know, fictional character, but best example of ‘doing the right thing selflessly ).

The Dow market has never reflected the reality of the economic security and well-being of the general public, in fact it usually represents the opposite. When the market goes up, you know that the general public is being screwed again.

Of course, when the market goes down it gives them another reason to bring the hammer down on the general population, which they gleefully do. For the corporate elite and their henchmen, it’s a win-win situation. For the general public, it’s a lose-lose situation.

If someone starts a ‘score’ that is based on how affordable health care is for all, affordable educations costs and housing costs, cost of non-gmo food available for all, whether we are in an illegal war or not, the environmental damage created of manufacturing and consumption, that is what I want to see. I think that the current score would be at best a 3/10. Not just below failure, but approaching a level that is not survivable.

Yes, Awi, the fix is indeed in. And enough with “Super Committee” or “Super
Congress.”

It’s a CENTRAL COMMITTEE not a wit different from the old Soviet-style one,
and if nothing else one has got to appreciate that irony. Not only did we lose
WWII in the end (same as we recently lost in Iraq, though in an obviously
different way, also ironically in the case of Iraq when Raj Bremer thought it best
to isolate and dispense with Baathist bureaucrats and Iraq’s standing army), we’re looking more and
more to have lost the Cold War as well, to the extent tyranny is more and more
in evidence, all the more so for all the talk of “America is still the greatest, blah,
blah…” on a Shakespearean scale. (No, I can name ten better places to subsist.)

Most offensive is Reid’s choice of the hapless, medical industry-owned Baucus, the same who f-ed up the
so-called “healthcare reform” bit. Reid has turned out a disaster of a Leader, while McConnell seems actually to run the Senate.

Who’s next? Will Reid bring back Bill Clinton? I expect he would if he could, Mr.
“fiscal conservative,” though when it comes to that, plenty in the Democratic
Party from among whom to choose.

The gimmick will probably work, fooling most all Americans most all of the
time.

A pity legislators don’t put the same effort into actually solving problems as
they do into figuring clever ways to avoid accountability.

Under the circumstances, term limits are probably the best we could do, though that would include a Bernie Sanders as well. That’s the rub with term limits.

Boehner and McConnell have cemented in place our continuing economic collapse, making long-term recovery impossible.  The market MAY recover a little today, but I doubt it.  I expect that by the Bell on Friday the Dow will be below 10,000, where it hasn’t been in years.  Gold may well hit $1900 by week’s end and, by the end of next week, I’m guessing it approaches $2000.

If this ‘Super Committee’ doesn’t work, at the next session of Congress they can all draw straws. The congressfolk who draws the short straw has to kill him/her self. The lucky one who draws the long straw gets to kill all the remaining folk, leaving just him/her self to make all the decisions.

And since one vote don’t mean s**t in Congress, that ought to fix the problem. Nothing will get done, and we’ll be back to normal. Except with a lot less noise and bull***t.

Six Republicans, six Democrats, twelve corporate stooges. Where are the people’s representatives on this committee? Or in our government?

The fix is in.  Dem’s will capitulate and ruin Medicare.  Defense will escape largely unchanged.  There will be no tax increases for the rich.  Progressive writers will excuse the Dem’s.  “o” will be characteristically pathetic.  The whole mess will be Christmas wrapped.  Scrooge rules!

waiting for Harry and Nancy to fuck up is like watching lucy and ethel on the candy assembly line, for the 50th time. You just know that each time, it will end in disaster.

At least Lucy was funny.

If the tea batters are so worried about what the Constitution has to say about our
government, why are they not raising a stink about this committee. Is it constitutional?

ocjim:

Ask his proctologist.

All this because we have a nincompoop/spineless war criminal in the white house who has never fought for anyone who doesn’t have big bucks.

It’s time to tax the rich or eat them.

Max Baucus is a bluedog who gets his orders from the rich. Where is Reid’s head?

We need to get rid of these super-committee politburo members first.

12 peas, all from the same pod.