Why did the supercommittee fail? (Duh!)

Silly question today but I decided to answer it anyway. More to the point, what in your opinion should be the next steps? Who should take leadership?

US CongressArena Asks: Congress is bracing today for the failure of the supercommittee, which will most likely fail to submit paperwork to the Congressional Budget Office by its Monday deadline.
Is this a big hit for Congress, which had a nine percent approval rating in a recent poll? And why was the supercommittee unable to make ends meet?

My Answer: The supercommittee was doomed from the start because the Republicans have less to lose politically by being intractable on revenue. The supercommittee process played right into their hands and the Democrats took the bait.

If anyone can force a solution to emerge, it’s “mom in tennis shoes” Patty Murray. Unfortunately, sometimes mom’s only solution is to send the bullies to the woodshed. It’s time for the Dems to do just that, to take off the gloves, stop whining about how much they are willing to give in to the Republican demands and start educating the American public about how much the Republicans are trying to take away from all of us. I think they’d find enthusiastic supporters rising up to vote for them in 2012.

What do they think Occupy Wall Street is about after all?

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PS Heartfeldt readers: You may be interested in Lucinda Marshall’s excellent commentary regarding feminism and Occupy Wall Street. And if you didn’t catch my post a couple of weeks ago on why women need to step up to leadership now to grapple with the economic problems the supercommittee has failed to solve, please check it out here on the 9 Ways Blog.

 

3 Comments

  1. Sandra K-Horn on November 25, 2011 at 12:06 pm

    I am enraged that Newt Gingrich is leading the GOP polls. When a man cheats on a wife dying from cancer, how can he be considered for the country’s highest office? When John Edwards did it, the news media played it up big, as they should have. But enough time has passed I guess, for the public to forget that is what Gingrich did. The story goes that he delivered divorce papers to his first wife, Jackie, when she was in the hospital for her third round of uterine cancer treatment.

    He has tried to refute this anecdote, but all one has to do is google it and see the sources from back when he was a congressman. Ironically, he still campaigns of family value issues. Hard to believe that MSNBC, Politico, and the New York Times would continue to report on this incident if it was not true, but also that it not be remembered by the public.

    It’s a story that, remarkably, Gingrich disputes to this day. Testament to how deeply it has reverberated, some version of the story — often rendered as Gingrich “serving divorce papers” to his wife in the hospital — has been cited in the last month alone by Slate, MSNBC, Politico, Commentary and the New York Times, among other outlets.

    • Gloria Feldt on November 25, 2011 at 5:18 pm

      Sandra, unfortunately political memory is short. People forget. Or they get inoculated against the bad once it’s been in front of them for a while and the candidate has done other things since then. With the current crop of Republican candidates, one is worse than the other, so for some people Newt starts looking better because he can at least string a sentence together.

      However, should he become the candidate (which I don’t think he will), the Democrats will have lots of fodder to create doubt in voters’ minds about him.

  2. Sandra K-Horn on November 27, 2011 at 8:21 am

    I just read an article where Sen. Portman said the super committee failed because the democrats wanted one trillion dollars in tax increases. I guess my first response was “Okay, then what happened after negotiations were done.” As many of us know if you want to decrease a deficit you have to do two things. One is cut spending the other is increase revenue where you can. I don’t understand why both sides can’t return to the government methods I remember as a girl, at least I thought our representatives were doing what is good for our country not just what is good for either party.

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