Politico reports Reid's three picks are Murray, Baucus and Kerry for super committee

[ticapnews]

Source: Politico

Breaking: Politico just tweeted

BREAKING: Harry Reid plans to tap Patty Murray to serve as the co-chair of the deficit reduction super committee.
Reid's other two picks will be Sens. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and John Kerry (D-Mass.), according to Democratic sources.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0811/60980.html

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Edit: Now listed as Breaking on their website http://politi.co/qOnYwc

Murray will act as co-chair of the committee.

Link added
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0811/60980.html

[Recursion]

1. One day I'll find out what drawer Baucus keeps the dirty pictures of everyone in...

...and his stranglehold over our party will end.

[texanwitch]

2. Baucus will be the sell out.

Yeah, he must have some really good pictures.

[Recursion]

3. Hell, Lieberman would be better.

Things could be worse than Baucus (eg, Nelson), but I really hope this is just a trial balloon.

[Hissyspit]

25. "Baucus Has Doctors, Nurses and Activists Arrested"

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x5638716

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x5704976

[Melinda]

4. Well there ya go - Baucus nail meet America's coffin

eom

[MannyGoldstein]

5. We're fucked.

Kerry's been running around saying that we need to cut entitlements. As he said on Meet the Press on Sunday:

“And the real problem for our country is not the short-term debt. We can deal with that. It’s the long-term debt. It’s the structural debt of Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid measured against the demographics of our nation.”

Shit.

[Harmony Blue]

7. Yeah the fix is in

they are setting up in circle surrounding on us and waiting for the order to shoot. :(

[hay rick]

11. Quick announcement to settle the markets?

The Democratic Party continues down the path of betrayal.

[Odin2005]

43. The only congresspeople worth anything are Sanders and Kucinish.

The rest are shit.

[hay rick]

6. Baucus on taxes.

From the Wikipedia article:
Baucus voted for the Bush tax cuts in 2001. He has usually voted against repealing portions of that bill and against repealing more recent tax cut bills that benefit upper income taxpayers. In 2008, he voted in favor of permanently repealing the estate tax.

So much for the suspense on where the super cat food committee is headed...

[ShockediSay]

33. Maybe we should recall him n/t

[hay rick]

8. Drunken Baucus extolling bipartisan "courage" on Senate floor...

link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5Y9X5ggxzA

He asks "where is the courage?" I think he meant "where is the John Courage?"

[BumRushDaShow]

9. Baucus is why we don't have a Public Option. n/t

[BackToThe60s]

10. BAUCUS???

Mad Max Beyond Blunderdom BAUCUS???????

[Hissyspit]

14. Jeremy Scahill: Max Baucus is on the supercommittee. Great. Now let's see who the Democrats appoint!

https://twitter.com/jeremyscahill/status/101048254006951936

@jeremyscahill Max Baucus is on the super committee. Great. Now let's see who the Democrats appoint!
Echofon • 8/9/11 5:52 PM

[Zenlitened]

16. LOL!

And :cry:

[chill_wind]

24. LOL!

[w4rma]

12. Baucus is the neo-Dem traitor that will sell us all out to Wall Street.

And Sen. Kerry has been making noises to that effect. And Sen. Reid is proving his untrustworthyness by appointing Baucus.

[modestybl]

13. Baucus?? We are fucked...

He will be a "compromiser' to people who will not compromise on anything. Reid might as well have picked a Repub..

[Zenlitened]

15. Reuters also reporting: Baucus, Kerry and Murray

Cites source as Senate aide.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/09/usa-debt-super-committee-idUSWEN709220110809

[Hissyspit]

17. Sam Stein: "Source says: '(Baucus) wasnt first choice. Others declined'"

https://twitter.com/samsteinhp/status/101045375028305920

[modestybl]

18. Did they ask Bernie Sanders?

Of course not...

[ShockediSay]

32. +

[ticapnews]

19. From the story

Reid’s three picks, to be formally announced on Wednesday, show the Nevada Democrat is serious about forging a bipartisan deal to head off $1.2 trillion in spending cuts required under the debt deal. The super committee was Reid’s contribution to the bipartisan agreement to end the debt limit fight.

Bipartisan. Right. The GOP version of "bipartisan" is "Whatever's mine is mine and whatever's yours is negotiable." The Age of Austerity indeed.

[pinboy3niner]

22. I'm not so worried about Kerry and Murray--but Baucus?

He's a caver, right from the start.

[pmorlan1]

26. Caver

He shares that trait with the President. The hits just keep coming.

[politicasista]

37. Sounds like others in this thread are

They must be desparate to paint them both as centrists, even though Kerry is actually a liberal but won't stop the haters. Boxer should have replaced Baucus.

[lark]

40. Be worried about Kerry, very worried

I listened to him last week on one of the Sunday am talk shows and he was definitely advocating changing SSI, recommending "small things, like raising the retirement age a couple of years over the next 10 years?. So, in other words, the fix is in. There is no way this will work out well, since everyone the Repugs nominated and everyone nominated by Senate DINO's are actually for gutting the working class. If Pelosi stands firm and puts committed Dems on the committee, this will deadlock and Medicare will end up being cut. You know damn well the Repugs will never agree to cut defense, they will find some GD way to weasle out of their part of the bargain.


:grr: :nuke: :puke:

[Melissa G]

20. Sucks Bigtime if so. n/t

[dwilso40641]

21. Murray?

NAFTA These three are enough to make you sick.

[thereismore]

23. Baucus, hahaha! It's all over folks. It's over. Abierto! Over!

I hate his guts, too.

[ticapnews]

27. On the bright side

...at least the powder is still dry. Reid has been guarding that powder for years. Some day he might actually use it.

[2Design]

28. what a joke - forget all of them - this is selling us down the river

[unblock]

29. baucus means we lose, 4-2

[ticapnews]

30. The House gets to choose 6 as well, so it could be 7-5

but we shouldn't discount the possibility that Nancy Pelosi will name a sellout as well, so it could be 8-4.

[underpants]

31. OOH I would have gone with Philip Rivers, Adrian Peterson, and Fitzgerald

oh this is that politics stuff not a fantasy league. Sorry I got confused.

[roxiejules]

34. Didn't Murray agree with Bowles-Simpson?

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/gearing-up-for-grand-bargain.html

[lark]

41. Nope, she was a dissenter from 1st catfood commission

She's the only one I even half way trust of those 3. We will still end up losing big time, as Obama intended. This is just more cover for his historic treachery to the working class and to his own legacy.

[tpsbmam]

35. They've graduated to the advanced "How To Fuck Americans" class!

Can't wait to see what kind of depression we end up in thanks to the conspiracy of ReTHUGS & ReTHUGS-lite.

:sarcasm: :banghead:

[ooglymoogly]

36. The fix is in.....dusting for fingerprints

whose fingerprints do you think is all over this?

[Bonobo]

38. Don't worry, this can all be cleared up with some...

Blue links

[Jersey Devil]

39. Showtime

Does it really matter who is on this committee? If you are all that politically astute how could you not recognize a dog and pony show?

Even with Baucus on the committee they are going to wind up with a stalemate and we get the auto-cuts. The show is just for a little drama.

[Odin2005]

42. This is all about shutting out anti-establishment views.