Democratic Leadership Narrowing Down List Of Super Committee Members

The rules for this 'Super Congress' have been gamed to result in deep cuts in programs vital to the poor and middle classes, cuts in Social Security and Medicare (and which put both on a path their demise), cuts to Pentagon projects that are really not cuts (smoke and mirrors*, and actually increases the Pentagon's budget) and no tax increases on the rich and corporatio­ns.  

If you don't want to see that happen, if you don't want to see Social Security or Medicare cuts, NONE OF THE DEMOCRATS on this 'Super Congress' can be for it or for Obama's "measured approach", "compromis­e".

Because the way the rules for this 'Super Congress' have been gamed, all it takes is ONE Democrat who is on board for Social Security and Medicare cuts or any other of the Republican­s' agenda (like making Bush's tax cuts permanent, or even the portion that's the middle class tax cuts) to side with the Republican­s' plan, and it's a done deal.  (You do know that Obama offered to do that, make Bush's tax cuts for the rich permanent, in the debt ceiling deal, don't you?)

And check this out - One of the loopholes in the bill:  A provision for debate.

SEC. 402. EXPEDITED CONSIDERAT­ION OF JOINT COMMITTEE RECOMMENDA­TIONS.
(e) Considerat­ion by the Other House-
(1) IN GENERAL- If, before passing the joint committee bill, one House receives from the other a joint committee bill–
(A) the joint committee bill of the other House shall not be referred to a committee; and
(B) the procedure in the receiving House shall be the same as if no joint committee bill had been received from the other House until the vote on passage, when the joint committee bill received from the other House shall supplant the joint committee bill of the receiving House.
(2) REVENUE MEASURE- This subsection shall not apply to the House of Representa­tives if the joint committee bill received from the Senate is a revenue measure.

What that means is that an 'all cuts' bill won’t be subject to amendment in the House, but any bill with revenue increases is subject to amendment in the House.  

Anybody who claims that revenue increases are an option in a bill coming out of this 'Super Congress' is either as ignorant as a bag of hammers or flat-out Iying.
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