Who would you TRUST on the Senate Super Congress?

[Laura PourMeADrink]

I would wholeheartedly trust Kerry and Boxer


JUST FYI...
Retiring as of 2012

D's

Bingaman
Herb Kohl
Jim Webb
Daniel Akaka
Kent Conrad


R's
Kay Baily Hutchison
John Kyl

I's
Lieberman


Dems Seeking Reelection
Sherrod Brown, Feinstein, Carper, Nelson (FL), Cardin, Stabenow, Klobucher, McCaskill, Tester, Nelson (NE), Menendez,
Gillibrand,Casey, Whitehouse, Manchin, Sanders, and Cantwell

Dems Voting No on Debt Ceiling Bill
Menendez
Gillibrand
Harkin
Lautenberg
Merkley
Nelson
I-Sanders

[OhioChick]

1. Bernie Sanders n/t

[NorthCarolina]

8. +1

[Ruby the Liberal]

15. Pity he can't sit on the panel.

He is the only one I would trust.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

27. is that true? No indie can be picked?

[Ruby the Liberal]

40. It was written for 3 members from each party, both houses.

Members to be chosen by their party.

[DJ13]

2. None of those traitors

[Laura PourMeADrink]

7. you mean the retirees? or anyone who said yes? nt

[DJ13]

12. I meant those listed in the OP

They are all corporate tools.

The complete list of Senators that would be included in the same category is too long to post here.

[RyanPsych]

3. For the Dems

Bernie Sanders, Al Franken, Nancy Pelosi...all I got off the top of my head. I would have said Anthony Weiner but...yeah.

[Parker CA]

4. Boxer, Franken, Sanders. nt

[Laura PourMeADrink]

5. so, they can pick an Indie in our caucus?

[Fearless]

6. The corporations ONLY need to buy off ONE person to kill us all.

It's clear that the Republicans picked will be happy to vote against the American people. That leaves ONE voice that needs to be bought to get their crap passed. I trust no one.

[NorthCarolina]

9. The Dem members selected will more than likely not need to be bought off. nt

[Fearless]

10. No doubt.

[Ruby the Liberal]

16. It only takes 1 of 6 to get a majority.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

23. 1 of 6? you mean 1 of 3?

[Ruby the Liberal]

41. Nope. Committee is 12. 7 Gets it to the floor.

Laura, pour me one too...

[RegieRocker]

25. You got it!

One person to agree and get the hell out if politics. That is the plan. It's a setup. Remember this when you get totally screwed.

[mmonk]

11. I do not trust anyone who relies on "triggers".

I do not support this bogus body.

[woo me with science]

13. Cutting the debt should not BE in a Super Congress in the first place.

This is major legislation that will affect every single American. There is a reason our Congress was set up to include representation from ALL parts of the country, and with safeguards that allow the people's representatives to amend or filibuster during the process.

Putting debt reduction into a Super Congress is a way to fast-track and shove legislation through while reducing accountability to the people. It concentrates power in the hands of a few, chosen legislators while shutting out or vastly reducing the power of others, and it reduces the ability of Americans to defend themselves against the final product.

It is a con and an outrage.

[jtown1123]

22. +1

[kenny blankenship]

14. Nobody. The Junta is set up to slash Democratic interests in the throat.

and that's what it will do, no matter who's on it. The Dems that are on it will be those who most agree with the Repukes, and who are most in the pocket of Big Money lobbies of one kind or another. You can't have a committee of people who disagree fundamentally. Pukes will put their bombthrowers on, because they know the purpose of the Junta is to cut Democratic throats. Dems will put "reasonable", "responsible" people on it, who agree with the aims of the Republicans, who will always find a way (an excuse, that is) to make a "deal", even though they may make regretful sounds and shake their heads a lot in public. It will go like a house on fire, and in only one way.

[gratuitous]

17. For the Democrats

I'd like to see Al Franken, Jeff Merkley and Bernie Sanders.

For the Republicans, maybe Jesse Helms, Strom Thurmond and Larry Craig.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

19. lol...hope they don't have a quorum rule. nt

[cherokeeprogressive]

18. I can't think of any of our 537 elected representatives that I'd trust

to carry dogshit to the trash at this point.

[jtown1123]

20. At this point, considering the way everything is set up, no one.

Except maybe the Dem Senators who voted NO on the Debt deal.

[quiller4]

21. Ds I would trust include Akaka, Kerry, Boxer, Whitehouse

Cantwell, Coons, Franken, Blumenthal, Kohl, Levin, Murray, Reed, Wyden, Gillibrand, Begich, Casey, McCaskill and Klobucher.

Rs I would trust make a shorter list: Collins, Hutchison, Lugar, Murkowski, Snowe and Portman.

[jtown1123]

24. Kohl, McCaskill and Klobuchar scare me...they're too blue dog for my taste.

[RegieRocker]

26. Marcy Kaptur, Dennis Kuchnich and?

[jtown1123]

35. I would pick the Senators who voted "no" on this deal.

[RegieRocker]

50. Exactly

[Mass]

28. Same except McCaskill. All she wants is cut, cut, cut

[Laura PourMeADrink]

31. yup...reelection, reelection, reelection...in swing state to boot...BUT

Obama loves her, right? Does he get to pick or Reid?

[RainDog]

29. Bernie Sanders, as an independent, should be on the commission

because he is one of the few voices that represent millions and millions of Americans whose voices do not otherwise get heard.

[Liberalynn]

32. What do you bet they put Lieberman

on as the independent? I just don't trust these asses.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

34. the meetings will have to be held on Saturdays

[RainDog]

39. I don't trust them either. I have given up hope for anything good from the U.S. politcal system

I do wonder about the things Emmanuel Todd wrote about the fall of the American empire back in 2000-ish.

[Liberalynn]

30. Kristin Gillibrand ROCKS

I would love to see her on this committee, though I doubt the asses that are TPTB will put her there. She's got too much integrity and cares too much about her constituents.

So proud of her that she voted no on this piece of crap.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

33. how's her reelection looking? nt

[Liberalynn]

36. No one's really started talking about the upcoming election yet;

I haven't heard any names being put up by the Pukes to challenge her so far. I think she's got a really good shot at re-election though. It seemed a lot of people were leery of her when Governor Patterson first appointed her but now the consensus seems to be she is doing a great job. Our local paper has an article almost every day on how she has really become a champion of veterans' rights and I think that is winning her a lot of support from both Democrats and even some Republicans.

I love her because she was against the Payroll Tax Holiday and she also signed onto Sen Whitehouse's proposed (but sadly ignored) bill that would have exempted the big three in any future budget cut showdowns.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

47. according to wikipedia..

Scott Noren (D) George Maragos (R) are announced candidates.

It must be great to have a senator you can admire ! You lucky dog

[Liberalynn]

48. Thank you!

We sure did get lucky with her. She's getting a thank you e-mail and I am going to see if there are any local opportunities to volunteer for her campaign.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

49. that's the spirti ! you go girl ! nt

[Obamanaut]

37. Of the current crop - no one. Why would anyone advocate putting foxes (or

weasels) in the henhouse?

[Laura PourMeADrink]

38. well, aren't there really bad foxes and moderately bad foxes? nt

[yurbud]

42. please repost this as a poll--it's not just individuals I don't trust but the very concept

that deep, across the board cuts are needed.

Somehow, I suspect that no matter what, the wealthy will be spared, and the rest of us will end up boiling our shoes for food.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

45. polls only have 10 options, right?

[RC]

43. Out country is on the brink of being totally taken over the the fascists

and people are playing "Fantasy Land, What If". People think elections still work? No they don't, not since 2000.
What we have now is basically a one party system, with a few renegades allowed to speak so we think we still have a chance to escape the coming serfdom.

What's needed is a big enough, noisy crowd on the White House lawn to surround the White House to scare the hell out of them.
Probable destroy the grass, but we can worry about that later.

Let them know "We the People..." mentioned in the Constitution, that quaint, outdated peace of paper, want control of our country back. Remind our servants that are supposed to be representing us in WDC, that the Constitution is not so outdated.

[mwooldri]

44. I'm having a hard time trusting anyone in Congress - let alone any Super Congress.

However I'd want Bernie Sanders and Al Franken on there if I had to pick anyone.

[WinkyDink]

46. Me. Just me.