Super Congress Getting Even More Super Powers In Debt Deal

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/31/super-congress-debt-ceiling-deficit-deal_n_914272.html

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Last weekend, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/23/super-congress-debt-ceiling_n_907887.html">HuffPost reported on the extraordinary powers being delegated to the emerging super Congress, but most beltway media has largely dismissing the group as just another Washington commission.


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"Let me emphasize the joint committee," McConnell said Sunday morning on CNN's "State of the Union." "In the early stages of this discussion, the press was talking about another commission. This is not a commission. This is a powerful, joint committee with a equal number of Republicans and Senate -- equal number of Republicans and Democrats, and, to make recommendation back to the Senate and House by Thanksgiving of this year for an up or down vote. Think of the base closing legislation that we passed a few years ago for an up or down vote in the Senate."

The sticking point, said McConnell and sources, was that Republicans were insisting on "triggers" that would automatically fire at beneficiaries of Social Security, Medicaid and Medicare if the super Congress doesn't act.

in there hands. What they decide effects 307 million Americans. 535 versus 307 million

And now we're going to put the fate of 307 million people in the hands of 12? Does that make any sense?

All these people in Congress are worried about is how they are going to get re-elected. They don't care one lick for the welfare of their constituents. They just pay their constituents lip service to save their sacred jobs so that they can cater to the Corporations, Banksters and Wall Street.