This SuperCongress was the republicans wet dream delivered on a lovesock made of gold

[Horse with no Name]

And that fucking amoral amorphous piece of shit McConnell said this:

SEN. MITCH MCCONNELL: The joint committee is also going to focus on entitlements. The trustees of the Social Security and Medicare system appointed by the president himself have said Medicare's got about five years before it goes broke, Social Security a little longer. We need to be looking at entitlement reform if it's even going to be there for the next generation.

SEN. MITCH MCCONNELL: Medicare is even in deeper trouble as a result of "Obamacare" than it was before. It was already in trouble. It got turned into a piggy bank to finance half of the trillion dollars of new spending in "Obamacare." We think that was a mistake. It only exacerbated the Medicare problem and made it even more urgent that we deal with trying to save Medicare.



more from this little noxious nugget:

After stating that revenues will be "no more on the table" than they were in the recent negotiations, McConnell argued that the super committee should target the safety net because "Medicare's got about five years before it goes broke, Social Security a little longer." The Affordable Care Act, he added, left Medicare in "deeper trouble" than it was before.

http://politicalcorrection.org...

[applegrove]

1. I wonder how much in donations he gets from the private health care industry?

[Horse with no Name]

2. Here:

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/sen-mitch-mcconnell-named-first-insurance-puppet-by-watchdog-group-as-health-care-debate-begins-78216987.html

WASHINGTON, Dec. 1 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Public Campaign Action Fund, a national campaign finance watchdog group, named Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) its first "Insurance Puppet" in an online advertising campaign targeting Kentucky and Washington, D.C.

"Senator McConnell has taken $523,000 from health insurers, and given more than 50 floor speeches spouting their talking points," said David Donnelly, Public Campaign Action Fund's national campaigns director. "As the Senate begins its second day of debate on health care reform legislation, the insurance interests are getting their money's worth from their 'Insurance Puppet,' Mitch McConnell."

The campaign finance watchdog group will release an "Insurance Puppet" each day at InsurancePuppets.com for the rest of the week in an effort to educate the public about the impact of the health insurance industry's campaign contributions on the health care debate. The industry has donated $17.7 million in campaign contributions to the Senators taking part in the current debate, according to the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics.

[spanone]

4. +1,000,000,000,000

[leveymg]

3. Who said they weren't handing out ponies in Washington?

[villager]

5. dutifully unrecc'd by those for whom "super committees" are the highest form of democracy!

n/t

[Atman]

6. This is going to be the biggest nightmare we could imagine.

A small cadre of super-rich, super-connected, super-lobbyist-supported Washington fat cats, and no one is allowed to debate them. Fuck "taxation without representation." We've come to "representation without representation." Dark days are ahead, my friends.

[Proud Public Servant]

7. My fear is that

If the GOP appoints 6 members representing the range of their caucus's ideology, that'll be...6 conservatives.
If the Dems appoint 6 members representing the range of their caucus's ideology, that'll be...3 or 4 liberals...1 or 2 progressives... and 1 conservative (my money's on Heath Shuler).

That's 7 conservatives, out of 12 committee members.

To quote Aliens: That's it man, game over man, game over!

[pwb]

8. The Super congress will win us back full control of Government.

In the next election.
The pukes have committed political suicide. IMO.

[jtown1123]

9. He's an idiot. SS can never :"go broke" unless we have 100% unemployment...maybe that's his goal?