RightChange: Supercommittee Poised To Fail: Who Wins?

The Supercommitee remains in a deadlock.  Now they are poised to punt all of the tough calls to their respective Congressional committees such as the Ways & Means committee.  If they fail, it will mark a significant point in our history in which all of our leaders are incapable of leading the greatest nation in the world.  That is bad for all of us.

From Politico:

“The 12-member deficit-reduction panel was nicknamed the supercommittee because it was supposed to be so much more powerful than those run-of-the-mill committees on Capitol Hill.

Now that the supercommittee’s prospects for a major deal are fading fast, it’s looking at giving some of that power back.

There’s increasing talk of punting some of the toughest issues to the congressional committees charged with doing this job in the first place. That could mean giving the House Ways and Means and Senate Finance panels an order to come up with a specific amount of savings and a broad directive to rewrite the Tax Code.

This potential abdication of power from a special committee that was granted sweeping authority to tackle the staggering deficit shows just how badly gridlocked Congress remains.”

As Brit Hume points out, President Obama and the Democrats insist we spend more money by making the rich pay more.  The top earners pay 70% of our income taxes and the bottom 50% pay practically nothing while still receiving the benefits.  The other half of taxpayers (50% of our country) pays NO taxes what so ever.  Of course they are going to insist the rich pay more.

Democrats simply will not budge unless the “rich” pay $1 trillion in higher income taxes, this has forced Republicans to agree to some form of new taxes to avoid looking like the “do-nothing” party in the Supercommittee deal.  President Obama wants to see the Supercommittee fail because it helps him politically.  The failure of the Supercomittee hurts us all because it proves that we have reached a time in our nation where ALL of our elected leaders have failed to lead our country.

There are a handful of politicians in Congress right now who do not care about keeping their job and actually want to fix this country.  Unfortunately for us, their message and policies are overshadowed by class warfare, misrepresentation, and in many cases, outright lies.

None of the problems we are facing at the moment are pretty.  It’s an ugly job if you want to fix them.  It’s time we changed the ranks and hired an ugly Congress and an ugly President.

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