Jim Hightower | Playing Washington's Inside Game
Jim Hightower, Truthout: "And then there were 12. When the 435 House
members and 100 senators failed in July to agree on a long-term deficit
reduction plan, congressional leaders did what they often do when they
don't know what to do: They appointed a committee. But don't sneer, for
this is - cue the trumpets - a supercommittee! Made up of only a dozen
lawmakers and perfectly balanced between Repubs and Dems, this panel is
to find about $1.5 trillion in spending cuts and new revenues to shrink
the federal deficit. They are to come to an agreement by Thanksgiving -
how's that for a symbolic deadline? The theory is that the group will be
small enough to work together across partisan lines for the good of the
country, independent of the competing budgetary needs of various groups
and the demands of special interests."
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