Thoughts on the new Super Congress

[chrisinhouston]

First off, I am neither a Democrat or a Republican but an independent. I feel as though I am a centrist but I tend to be more conservative on fiscal issues and lean liberal on social ones.

This whole new Super Congress really bothers me; I even question whether it is constitutional or not. And I feel that the creation of this one to handle such important fiscal policy is a real dereliction of duty by all of the politicians who supported it's creation. Our legislators have a job to do. All of them. Together. If they can’t manage to do the job they were elected to do, and do it in accordance with the Constitution they are sworn to uphold, there will be a lot of incumbents booted out of office hopefully the next time around.

Here are other aspects that bother me:

12 individuals, 6 from each party and each group of 6 has 3 from the Senate and 3 from the House. That just seems to fly in the face of the demographics and the will of the people. I mean House and the Senate have never been divided equally; whether we like it or not one party ends up with a majority! And proportionately the Senate has 100 members and the House has 435 so how is 6 and 6 even remotely close to the Congressional structure.

And the whole concept that the party heads, Reid, McConnell, Pilosi and Boehner pick the members is nuts. Yet these 4 leaders who have failed so miserably in leadership are free to pick the committee members. How about the parties get to vote for the members? Or the members get to apply for the job and tell why they should be chosen, like maybe they can see beyond party politics and political gains and actually agree to work together for the good of the nation?

And then there is the makeup of the group. 11 men and 1 woman... 10 white people and 1 Hispanic American and 1 African American. So basically 9 white men and 3 minority members. What kind of representation is that? And what about the states they represent? Arizona, California, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan (x2), Montana, South Carolina, Texas and Washington. Eleven states of varying sized populations and demographics? And to top it all off, the 6 Republicans have all signed the Grover Norquist anti tax pledge. Oh, I'm just so sure these guys are going to really try to overcome preconceived ideology and work for the common good.

I just wish someone or some group would file a challenge to this whole concept and fast track it to the Supreme Court. ARGHAHHHHA