‘Super Congress’: Debt Ceiling Negotiators Aim To Create New Legislative Body

Now this is downright scary….

It complete removes the majority of our elected officials from the deliberative process.

Congress isn’t working today, but this is not the way to go…

This is how to start a Banana Republic- which is probably what Boehner has in mind….

It also sounds like the goal is to further protect the Rich and screw the Middle Class.  Using this process they are already targeting ending the Mortage Interest Deduction and the deductions for Retirement Savings.

Could destroying Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid be far behind?

This doesn’t sound like a Super Congress;  it sounds like a Coup d’etat.

From the Huffington Post:

Debt ceiling negotiators think they’ve hit on a solution to address the debt ceiling impasse and the public’s unwillingness to let go of benefits such as Medicare and Social Security that have been earned over a lifetime of work: Create a new Congress.

This “Super Congress,” composed of members of both chambers and both parties, isn’t mentioned anywhere in the Constitution, but would be granted extraordinary new powers. Under a plan put forth by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and his counterpart Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), legislation to lift the debt ceiling would be accompanied by the creation of a 12-member panel made up of 12 lawmakers — six from each chamber and six from each party.

Legislation approved by the Super Congress — which some on Capitol Hill are calling the “super committee” — would then be fast-tracked through both chambers, where it couldn’t be amended by simple, regular lawmakers, who’d have the ability only to cast an up or down vote. With the weight of both leaderships behind it, a product originated by the Super Congress would have a strong chance of moving through the little Congress and quickly becoming law. A Super Congress would be less accountable than the system that exists today, and would find it easier to strip the public of popular benefits. Negotiators are currently considering cutting the mortgage deduction and tax credits for retirement savings, for instance, extremely popular policies that would be difficult to slice up using the traditional legislative process.

House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) has made a Super Congress a central part of his last-minute proposal, multiple news reports and people familiar with his plan say

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