We hate to be cynical about politics — we really, really do — but if The New York Times and its sources close to President Obama's deficit-reduction commission are to be believed, there's little hope that the proposal currently on the table will get the fourteen votes required to get the seal of approval from the entire eighteen-member panel. The situation, according to the Times's Caucus blog, is as follows:
The two chairmen and perhaps three appointees who are not elected officials are said to be in general agreement, but the 12 members of Congress are described as split along party lines – the six Republicans opposed to tax increases and the six Democrats to reductions from future health-care and Social Security benefits.
And in other surprising news of the day: the sun came out this morning. What, exactly, did the president think was going to happen when he turned this thing over to a bunch of active politicians? That they would simply forget all about the prospect of pissing off voters, 501(c)(4)s, and @SarahPalinUSA? These guys live and breathe for public approval, and if the president thought they were going to set aside party loyalties and make the tough, unpopular decisions this crisis requires, he really hasn't spent enough time in Washington. The whole thing was doomed from the start...
Source: http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/obama-debt-panel-vote-4064483?src=rss
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