SUPERCOMMITTEE CREATED TO FAIL!

SUPERCOMMITTEE CREATED TO FAIL! (Washington Post-Frazer Chronicle)

I watched the Green Bay Packers beat Tampa Bay Buccaneers yesterday on "football Sunday," and I cheered the Detroit Lions to a comeback 49-35 victory in the motor city over the Carolina Panthers. Both winning teams were crafted for victory, it was their ultimate goal, both winning organizations got the best talent available to make the ultimate goal attainable.

Although some would disagree, the Packers and Lions victories were not paramount to city, state, country, or world activity, everything would still exist. It was after all just a football game, which will soon be forgotten. In fact only newspaper reports will keep the "battle of the bays," and the "fight of the cats" in the sports headlines.

Now we are learning about a debt super committee that is "bracing for failure," and in fact had little or no chance of completing their assigned task. The "mandated" task was to shave at least $1.2 trillion from the federal debt. Rather than making a concerted effort to compromise, members of the special deficit-reduction committee spent their final hours casting blame and pointing fingers and worrying about reaction from the financial markets already jittery over the European debt crisis.

The committee, 11 men and 1 woman ought to tell you something about any possible "meeting of the minds." As C.N.N. MONEY writer, Charles Riley wrote in an August 11th. article, "it will be tough work and will likely require political sacrifice on issues like taxes and entitlements," he was right, but as with every other issue today, decisions were made along party lines.

The committee members include Republican Representative Co-chair Jeb Hensarling from Texas, who served on President Obama's debt committee, but voted against it, Democratic Senator Patty Murray, Washington state, co-chair of the committee. She also chairs the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, and it's her job to recruit candidates who can beat her Republican colleagues.

The other ten members of the committee are Republicans Senator Jon Kyl, Arizona, Pat Toomey, Pennsylvania, Rob Portman, Ohio, Representative Dave Camp and Fred Upton both of Michigan. All of these people have strong ties with Grover Norquist and his anti-tax movement, and with the possible exception of Rob Portman remain staunch in their Republican no new tax, and cut entitlements to the poor, education and health programs.

Democrats include Senator John Kerry, Massachusetts, Representative Chris Van Holland, Maryland, Senator Max Baucus, Montana, Representative Xavier Becerra, California, and James Clyburn, South Carolina. All of these people also have one thing in common; they follow Democratic ideology, and usually will not bend in their thinking.

Without a doubt these 12 people were distended to fail, and in fact have left Washington for the long Thanksgiving week, so the reaction won't even hit the presses until the first part of December. This holiday week is being observed by these people despite a national debt that now exceeds $15 trillion dollars.

The two sides could not bridge the taxes-vs.-entitlement gap, as the passion for keeping tax rates as low as possible by Republicans meant that the Democratic guarding entitlement programs would come to a head that could not be settled with any sort of capitulation by either side.

Possibly either the Green Bay Packers or the Detroit Lions business organizations should take up the countries debt problems and settle the matter on the grid-iron on a Sunday afternoon. It would be entertaining, tickets could be sold, concessions offered and maybe Senator Patty Murray would lead the proceedings in her tu-tu and a cheering section.