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Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) expressed doubt about the work of the congressional “supercommittee” established by the Budget Control Act at a breakfast hosted by The American Spectator and Americans for Tax Reform this morning.
“I have a bleak outlook for what the supercommittee has been assigned to do,” Lee told reporters, noting that the 12 members of the committee wouldn’t be able to bind future Congresses. “It doesn’t work to pick three Republicans and three Democrats from the House, and three and three from the Senate, and put them in a room and say, ‘now: agree.’ I don’t understand why that’s likely to bear fruit and bring about success.”
Lee does, however, have high hopes for the Tea Party. He discounted polls that have shown rising disapproval of the Tea Party, explaining that the Tea Party may be hard to define, but its policies keep gaining currency among the public. “You can tarnish [the name of the Tea Party] all you want, it’s not going to change the fact that the people understand that the government is too big and too expensive,” Lee said, citing CNN polls that show high levels of support for balanced budgets and spending cuts.
The freshman senator then went on to predict success for the Tea Party in the 2012 elections, saying that the movement’s success was “going to make what happened in 2010 look like a Sunday picnic.”
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LiveFreeOrDie| 9.14.11 @ 12:19PM
And I can't wait to see the blank looks on the talking heads from the networks as it happens.
Oldefarte| 9.14.11 @ 1:01PM
'..... Act Now: Debt Super Committee Meets TodayTuesday, September 13, 2011 3:14 PM
From: "Our Friends of Freedom" ....Today is the first meeting of the Debt Super Committee and we at Our Friends of Freedom urge you to pick up a phone and call or write a letter and fax it to all of your so-called leaders telling them we WILL NOT stand for anymore government waste. It has been our tax dollars that have been wasted, money that we the American people work so hard every day to earn.The Debt Super Committee is a new concept in Washington. Each of the big four — House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio), House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), Senate Majority Leader Harry A. Reid (D-Nev.) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) — have selected three lawmakers for a 12-person committee divided evenly on party lines. Their mission is to come up with at least $1.2 trillion more in spending cuts, with $1.5 trillion the more desired outcome.In recent decades, the federal government has expanded into hundreds of areas that should be left to state and local governments, businesses, charities, and individuals. That expansion is sucking the life out of the private economy and creating a top-down bureaucratic society that is alien to American traditions.The government we have in place to protect all Americans has been spending money left and right. Here are a few examples of what YOUR tax dollars have purchased:1. Museum Where Neon Signs Go to Die – $1.8 Million 2. “Free” Grateful Dead Archive – $615,000 3. Poems in Zoos – $997,766
4. “Critter Crossing” – $150,000 5. Internet Dating Study – $239,100 The need to cut this frivolous spending and debt is urgent. Numerous committees, think tanks, and members of Congress have proposed plans to tackle ongoing deficits with very little or no success. The various plans are not in agreement about the role of taxes in reducing deficits, but there is fairly broad support for substantial spending cuts, particularly cuts to entitlement programs. The best solution our leaders could seem to come up with is a Debt Super Committee.We the people manage our own money, don't you think it is time for the American government to finally learn to manage theirs?We have provided all the contact numbers for the every member of the Debt “Super Committee”, so please pick up your phone and call today, and keep calling and keep faxing until they get it right. Tell them to work together, fix the problem or get out of office or hit the unemployment lines like millions of Americans.Be sure to forward this email to all your friends, family and everyone else who is tired of government waste and wants the economy fixed now! Contact Your Representaive Now
Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R, Texas)
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Sen. Patty Murray (D, Washington)
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Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D, Maryland)
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Sen. Jon Kyl (R, Arizona)
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Sen. John Kerry (D, Massachusetts)
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Sen. Pat Toomey (R, Pennsylvania)
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Rep. Xavier Becerra (D, California)
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