…to actually believe this nonsense about how the supercommittee was supposed to save us from fiscal apocalypse:
The concept of the supercommittee, as POLITICO’s Jake Sherman articulated in an email: “[I]f you put 12 serious members in a room, no distractions, easy way through the Senate [direct path for bill], they’d be able to get something.”
To quote a physicist friend of mine, that’s not even WRONG. Robert Heinlein, thou have lived in vain!
“A committee is a life form with six or more legs and no brain. “
Continue reading #rsrh I hope that Politico’s Jake Sherman wasn’t dumb enough…