Rep. Steve King (R-IA), a key conservative Member of the House of Representatives warned the Republican leadership should be prepared for a defeat of the super committee deficit reduction proposals in either the House or Senate.
The deficit reduction committee was appointed by congressional leaders as part of a debt reduction deal with the White House last summer. They must decide on a deficit reduction plan by November 23 or $1.2 Trillion in spending cuts go into effect.
“I think the odds are very high that if the super committee produces a recommendation that it’s likely to fail in the House or Senate, or both,” he told PJ Media today.
King is a major conservative voice in Iowa where the first Presidential caucus will be held.
Rep. King told PJ Tatler:”You have twelve people, I call them the ‘Twelve Apostles’,” he said. “They put them in a room and closed the door. What you do is eliminate the input that comes from everybody else.”
As a result he warns that the House and Senate leadership “should be prepared for a defeat eventuality.”
Castigating the secrecy of the panel, he told PJ Media, ”It cuts out the wisdom from the American people for the most part and almost guaranteed to produce weaker result than we might have had open dialogue on the subject.”
King compared the super committee’s closed door negotiations to the doomed 1993 Hillarycare effort in which then First Lady Hillary Clinton attempted to secure passage of a health care bill.
At the time of Hillarycare, he said “The people rose up and resented it and eventually they had to open their meetings up. I don’t expect that will happen with the super committee but I don’t expect there will be a good result that will come from that.”
“They are not building any stakeholders behind this,” he said. ”There needs to be some buy-in along the way.”
King said he received little hint from the House members of the panel what they are contemplating “When on a rare occasion a run into a super committee member when you’re in a place where you can actually talk to them, they give you the most general answer. That’s how it’s been for me for the last six weeks or so.”
President Obama, meanwhile has been on the sidelines throughout the super committee’s deliberations.
King says the Democrats have been hoping the panel will fail so they can use it in the 2012 election campaign. “The Democrats have designed it to fail. They’ve wanted it to fail, then blame Republicans.”
King says the Democrats have been hoping the panel will fail so they can use it in the 2012 election campaign. “The Democrats have designed it to fail. They’ve wanted it to fail, then blame Republicans.”
I said this on the day it was announced. The small c communists (along with the Large C communists behind the Occupy movement, as well as the anarchists) got the deal of a lifetime.
The Stupor Committee is silent because it is the sound of hitting a marshmallow with a feather. The Republicans were NEVER going to get anything of value in return for giving up the remaining carcass of capitalism to the vultures.
Just who agreed to gut the military in half if the Democrats stonewalled, precisely? I surely would have never made that part of the bargain.
For the tear down the system types..gutting the military would be the big prize. Now, the Republicans can take blame from ALL quarters.
The propaganda machine will eat them alive..AND…they will take the beating they deserve on destroying the American military.
What were they thinking? That this super secret committee was actually not going to be run by the small c communists behind the scenes?
That the intent to overthrow the free market was suddenly going to disappear? That John Kerry was suddenly going to be an honest broker and an honest patriot?
The Soros Shadow hand puppet was going to not control the events as they unfold?
The Super Secret Stupor Republicans have painted the country into a corner. Accept horrible terms…or accept horrific terms. Either way, they are going to take nearly all the blame. Nice work.
Of course the Donks want the Super Committee to fail. They will then demagogue the Republicans and the MSM will give the Donks total support. Any brief review of Alinsky Rules or the Cloward-Piven Strategy will show where they want to go. Reduce the power of the United States, decimate the U.S. military, and take any money “saved” and give it to your Union and Wall Street masters. What could be simpler? Oh, and by the way, the Donks expect this to be a major contribution to the re-election of 0.
Looks like the farm state reps are going to sneak in more subsides for farmers during a time of high commodity prices where one would think we could turn off the spigot:
http://thehill.com/homenews/house/193581-secret-farm-bill-primed-for-passage-in-debt-deal
It is going to take a Greek like event to get any real fiscal discipline.
On the day this circus was announced, I figured that the game would play out to a standstill and then both houses would come back and vote to suspend the automatic gutting of the military to avert a disaster. And then blame each other and go on as normal. No cuts to the deficit, no cuts to the military, campaign rhetoric in good supply.
Even if they cut 1.5 Trillion over 10 years, we’re still going to go bankrupt. We have 1.5 Trillion annual deficits right now. That’s 15 Trillion additional borrowing over 10 years. Cut out 1.5 and you still have 13.5 Trillion in addition debt. That’s double what we have now.
The whole thing is a show to look like they’re doing something without changing from business as usual.
They’re all so out of touch with reality, we’re doomed if we don’t throw them all out next year.