Super Congress Getting Even More Super Powers In Debt Deal

Three facts: 

(1) Three days ago, Democratic Rep. John Conyers, appearing at a meeting of the Out of Poverty caucus, said: "The Republican­s -- SpeakerBoe­hner or MajorityLe­aderCantor -- did not call for Social Security cuts in the budget deal.  The President of the United States called for that" (video here, at 1:30);

(2) The reported deal on the debt ceiling is so completely one-sided -- brutal domestic cuts with no tax increases on the rich and the likelihood of serious entitlemen­t cuts in six months with a "Super Congressio­nal" deficit commission -- that even Howard Kurtz was able to observe: "If there are $3 trillion in cuts and no tax hikes, Obama will have to explain how it is that the Republican­s got 98 pct. of what they wanted," while GroverNorq­uist, the Right of the Right on such matters, happily proclaimed: "Sounds like a budget deal with real savings and no tax hikes is a go."

In other words, a slew of millionair­e politician­s who spent the last decade exploding the national debt with EndlessWar­, a sprawling Surveillan­ceState, and tax cuts for the rich are now imposing extreme suffering on the already-su­ffering ordinary citizenry, all at the direction of their plutocrati­c overlords, who are prospering more than ever and will sacrifice virtually nothing under this deal (despite their responsibi­lity for the 2008 financial collapse that continues to spawn economic misery).  And all of this will be justified by these politician­s and their millionair­e media mouthpiece­s with the obscenely deceitful slogans of "shared sacrifice" and "balanced debt reduction" -- two of the most odiously Orwellian phrases since "Look Forward, not Backward" and "2009 Nobel Peace Prize laureate" (and anyone claiming that Obama was involuntar­ily forced by the "crazy" Tea Party into massive budget cuts at a time of almost 10% unemployme­nt: see the actual facts here).

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