Pelosi picks: Clyburn, Becerra, and Van Hollen for Super Congress.

Just saw on Twitter. No link yet.

From Dave Weigel:

RT @tnr: #Breaking: #NancyPelosi announces #supercommittee picks:
Jim Clyburn, Chris Van Hollen, Xavier Bercerra

head of the DCCC and the ranking member of the budget committee. Becerra's on Ways and Means. Clyburn's assistant leader, and chair of the House Democratic caucus. None of these people are particularly obscure.

One black guy, one white guy, one Hispanic.

We know who he'll represent....

Kucinich, Kaptur, and Jackson-Lee, right?

You can be disappointed, but unless you live in a cave, you can't be surprised.

...of people polled self-identify as liberal, this is going to be the rule, and not the exception.

That can be changed -- but it'll take between 25 and 50 years.

...is a Republican. They don't have a non-right wing.

His mission is NOT to save SS or Medicare...but wants to "reform it"
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x617879#617897

Their position:

“But to finish the job, the next steps toward such a bargain must involve tough choices on both sides – Republicans must be willing to throw out their pledges and support an increase in revenues; Democrats must tell their core supporters that the only way to save entitlements like Medicare and Social Security is to reform them. Both options must be on the table immediately, and neither side should view their absence in the current deal as an opportunity to declare them off-limits. A grand bargain is the only way for the United States to avoid a downgrade, get our fiscal house in order and protect crucial investments so that we can secure long-term growth. It will be difficult. But in the coming months, Congress must decide if we are to be a AAA or a AA nation.

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/07/republicans-and-democrats-endorse-major-changes-to-social-security.php

...is about a fifth of the country. Why would the more representative of the two Houses of Congress be any different?

Yes, there might be only about the fifth of the country that is smart enough to realize that the powerful in this country are destroying the middle class. But when I said our side I wasn't talking about liberals, I was talking about regular american people whatever their political ideology happens to be.

...they're not 'your side'.