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scheming daemons Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-03-11 07:26 AM
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Given the options, the best deal for America is for the super committee to end up deadlocked

That would end up with the automatic triggers kicking in and $600 billion in defense cuts, along with probably the end of the Medicare Part D (which should've never become law in the first place).

Anything the committee comes up with would be surely worse.


Here's hoping for a 6-6 deadlock and a big budget ax to the Pentagon.

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cali Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-03-11 07:28 AM
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1. disagree.
the automatic cuts would be disaster for the poor, the elderly and the disabled.
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scheming daemons Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-03-11 07:31 AM
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4. less of a disaster than anything that would come out of this committee
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Major Hogwash Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-03-11 07:29 AM
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2. "Just say no"
Roadblock them in the committee.
Let nothing get resolved.
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lunatica Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-03-11 07:30 AM
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3. Not to worry. It will be deadlocked and it will be the worst, not the best
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tularetom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-03-11 07:33 AM
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5. That's my prediction too
I see the committee breaking down into endless bickering, posturing and pontificating with basically no results.

With one caveat - Reid and Pelosi better keep their fake Democrats off this committee.

Actually another caveat - once the republicans see that the committee isn't giving them the results they want, it will be disbanded before the triggers ever kick in.
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jtown1123 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-03-11 07:34 AM
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6. I agree.
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