From Stark
Defying the punditry consensus that his candidacy was not viable, Newt Gingrich seems to be reviving his campaign for the GOP presidential nomination.
Recently, he’s focused on the budget “supercommittee” of senators and representatives that is charged with resolving the seemingly unresolvable conflict between Democrats and Republicans on dealing with the federal deficit. In creating this supercommittee, Congress set up an automatic budgetary doomsday machine: If the Dems and Republicans on the committee can’t come up with a deal by Nov. 23, the federal budget will be subject to automatic cuts that supposedly will decimate both social programs and national defense.
In this report from The Washington Post, Gingrich says it was “maniacally stupid” to expect good government to result from this kind of an arrangement.
“When Senate and House negotiators crafted their deal to create the so-called “supercommittee” on federal spending reduction, they forgot that one of the key reasons for Congress’ abysmal public approval ratings is the lack of transparency in the legislative process. It was especially disappointing that House Republican leaders went along with the supercommittee deal’s provision that its meetings would be held in secrecy, and that its product would be rushed directly to the floor of the Senate and House for an up-or-down vote, with no amendments allowed….
There is always the temptation to appoint a select group of “experts,” give them extraordinary powers, and shield them from public pressure in the hope they will objectively produce a reasonable solution to a vexing problem. That temptation should always be resisted, particularly in a democratic republic. There is still time for Congress to do the right thing on the supercommittee’s transparency.
Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/2011/11/bring-supercommittee-out-behind-closed-doors#ixzz1diq0Nu4K
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The GOP presidential circus is very target rich, even for Newt – who has a few Maniacal tendencies himself.
Our current maniacal political presidential circus is a very target rich enviroment:
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