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New "Super Congress" thread #1

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Re: New "Super Congress" thread #1

Bill said:
Plus, as I understand it, legislation approved by the Super Congress would then be fast-tracked through both chambers, where it couldn't be amended by simple, regular lawmakers, who'd have the ability only to cast an up or down vote. i.e. Most of the regular, popularly elected Congress members that represent us will have much less say so in legislation.
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Which has nothing to do with the Constitution. Congress gets to set its own rules for itself outside of those explicitly mentioned (such as the age requirement).
 
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unofan said:
Which has nothing to do with the Constitution. Congress gets to set its own rules for itself outside of those explicitly mentioned (such as the age requirement).
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I didn't say it was technically unconstitutional. It's an end around. Surely you don't believe the founders would be fine with it.
 
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Bill said:
I didn't say it was technically unconstitutional. It's an end around. Surely you don't believe the founders would be fine with it.
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The founders would be too busy wondering why we let everyone vote to the point where some colored boy was running things.

Seriously speaking, they weren't gods or prophets bringing down the Constitution from Mt. Sinai. They were flawed men who compromised on many things in the document themselves. They would probably recognize it as another version of compromise. Hell, they probably thought we'd have a convention every hundred years or so to update the **** thing. They had two separate governments in 20 years.
 
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President Obama vows to veto anything out of the Super Committee that cuts security programs without rolling back taxes

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama will veto a comprehensive deficit reduction package if it includes cuts to security program benefits but no tax hikes on the wealthy or well-to-do corporations, senior advisers said on Sunday.

The veto threat is an addendum of sorts to a $3 trillion-plus set of deficit reduction proposals that the White House will make to the congressional super committee tasked with comprehensive deficit reduction. But if administration officials are to be believed, it is now a principle by which the committee must act and it raises the specter of gridlock. Just last week, House Speaker John Boehner insisted that tax hikes should be off the table.
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bronconick said:
Hell, they probably thought we'd have a convention every hundred years or so to update the **** thing. They had two separate governments in 20 years.
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Most of them would be appalled that they became saints (though Franklin would have gotten a raucous belly laugh out of it.).

I bet not one of them would have been surprised by the Civil War, though. Saw that coming from a mile away.
 
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Foxton said:
The libtard must die! Oh wait can't really say that... someone needs to step up and show Obama what we do to people who don't love America.
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Some (residents of Chappaqua, NY) are hoping for this:
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joecct said:
Some (residents of Chappaqua, NY) are hoping for this:
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The "Super Congress" has to tell us the wonderful compromise they have reached to save the budget. Let's see what they have to say...

GOP rejects Dems offer in 'super committee,' negotiations 'deadlocked' over taxes

Washington (CNN) - Democrats on the so-called "super committee" proposed during a closed meeting Tuesday a $3 trillion plan designed to slash the federal deficit but Republicans swiftly and decisively rejected it because it relied heavily on tax increases, according to several congressional sources from both parties.

One top Republican aide described the Democratic offer as "outrageously absurd" and a "non-starter," and a sign the super committee may ultimately fail. But this is the first time in the months since the committee began its negotiations that any group in the committee has offered a specific plan.
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The super-committee may fail? Whodathunkit?!
 
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WASHINGTON -- House Speaker John Boehner said Thursday that any bipartisan agreement reached by the congressional deficit-reduction supercommittee will need to include some new tax revenue.

Most Congressional Republicans have signed a "taxpayer protection pledge" -- devised by the Grover Norquist-led group Americans for Tax Reform -- vowing not to raise taxes. When asked about Norquist on Thursday, Boehner dismissed him as "some random person in America" but later revised his comments to say that "Norquist, like millions of Americans, believes that raising taxes is not good for our economy."
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He's going to get flayed.
 
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Brinksmanship 101. A deal, if any, won't be done until 11:55 PM on the last day.

A question though -- who gets to a solution first? NBA or Congre$$??
 
Re: New "Super Congress" thread #1

Priceless said:
The "Super Congress" has to tell us the wonderful compromise they have reached to save the budget. Let's see what they have to say...



The super-committee may fail? Whodathunkit?!
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Failure was supposed to give the launch codes to Colossus and Guardian and let them work it out. Both parties would set up pressers in front of the melted ruins of the Treasury and triumphantly announce they had agreed for neither side to be blamed.
 
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