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Agorism
08-10-2011, 09:45 AM
I'm not as excited as the exclamation point suggested, but it sounded like an exciting headline.

http://mcconnell.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?p=PressReleases&ContentRecord_id=20b302e8-6cdf-4dca-bb8a-dcb64c85cb6f


Toomey is a good pick. I don't really trust Kyl, and I don't even know who Portman is somehow.


Sen. Jon Kyl was elected unanimously by his colleagues in 2008 to serve as Republican Whip, the second highest position in Senate Republican leadership. He is a senior member of the Finance Committee and a leading advocate of pro-growth tax policies. Kyl is in his third term in the Senate after serving four terms in the House of Representatives. He was the Senate Republicans’ lead negotiator in the deficit reduction talks led by the Vice President over the summer.

Sen. Pat Toomey is a member of the Budget, Banking, Commerce and Joint Economic Committees and has been a leader on economic, financial services, and budgetary issues. Toomey is in his first term in the Senate after serving three terms in the House of Representatives. Sen. Toomey has run a small business and served as the president of The Club for Growth.

Sen. Rob Portman will be the only former Director of the Office of Management and Budget on the Joint Committee. He is a member of the Budget Committee and serves on the Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management (Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee). Sen. Portman is in his first term in the Senate. He served in the House of Representatives from 1993 to 2005 when he became the U.S. Trade Representative. While serving in the House of Representatives, he served as Vice Chair of the House Budget Committee and as a member of the House Ways & Means Committee. In 1997, Portman co-chaired the National Commission on Restructuring the Internal Revenue Service with Senator Bob Kerrey of Nebraska.

Cowlesy
08-10-2011, 09:48 AM
Hopefully Toomey will keep Portman (a consummate Bush Republican) in check.

realtonygoodwin
08-10-2011, 09:48 AM
How did they vote on the deal?

Brian4Liberty
08-10-2011, 09:52 AM
This is a complete farce without Jim DeMint, Rand Paul or Mike Lee.

flightlesskiwi
08-10-2011, 09:53 AM
This is a complete farce without Jim DeMint, Rand Paul or Mike Lee.

the whole thing is a farce, regardless of who actually makes it on the "committee".

Napoleon's Shadow
08-10-2011, 09:55 AM
It only takes 1 big-government Republican to vote with the Dems to screw it all up.

nobody's_hero
08-10-2011, 09:56 AM
This is a complete farce without Jim DeMint, Rand Paul or Mike Lee.

No offense, but it would have been a complete farce even with them.

12 person committee, right?

So 11 beats one, every time. Even if all three of those suggestions made it, it would still be 9-3.

Bottom line:

They're not going to let us win. We have to win without their permission.

It's probably a farce either way, because there's an even number of people on this committee, so if we had principled republicans sitting on the committee, it would end in a 6 to 6 tie, every time, every issue.

it's also a farce because it's unconstitutional.

tsai3904
08-10-2011, 09:56 AM
http://boehner.house.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=255595

Boehner's picks are announced too:

House Republican Conference Chairman Jeb Hensarling (R-TX)
House Ways & Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI)
House Energy & Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI)

Brian4Liberty
08-10-2011, 09:58 AM
the whole thing is a farce, regardless of who actually makes it on the "committee".


No offense, but it would have been a complete farce even with them.

12 person committee, right?


Of course. I should have said bigger and more obvious farce. ;)

Brian4Liberty
08-10-2011, 10:00 AM
http://boehner.house.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=255595

Boehner's picks are announced too:

House Republican Conference Chairman Jeb Hensarling (R-TX)
House Ways & Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI)
House Energy & Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI)

What? No Ron Paul? No Connie Mack? Shocking! Outrageous! Unbelievable!

Krugerrand
08-10-2011, 10:01 AM
Hopefully Toomey will keep Portman (a consummate Bush Republican) in check.

Toomey's doing better than I had expected of him, so far. Granted those expectations were pretty low. I think some of that is that he sees the current political climate and doesn't want to be out the door too soon - expediency over principle.

LibertyEagle
08-10-2011, 10:01 AM
Keep in mind that if Ron Paul was on it, it would take time away from campaigning.

sirgonzo420
08-10-2011, 10:05 AM
No offense, but it would have been a complete farce even with them.

12 person committee, right?

So 11 beats one, every time. Even if all three of those suggestions made it, it would still be 9-3.

Bottom line:

They're not going to let us win. We have to win without their permission.

It's probably a farce either way, because there's an even number of people on this committee, so if we had principled republicans sitting on the committee, it would end in a 6 to 6 tie, every time, every issue.

it's also a farce because it's unconstitutional.


Hear, hear!

eduardo89
08-10-2011, 10:08 AM
Who the hell is Rob Portman?

eduardo89
08-10-2011, 10:09 AM
And why aren't these people voted on by the caucus...what a farce

Brian4Liberty
08-10-2011, 10:10 AM
Who the hell is Rob Portman?

Natalie Portman's father? ;)

Agorism
08-10-2011, 10:16 AM
It only takes 1 big-government Republican to vote with the Dems to screw it all up.


Exactly.

oyarde
08-10-2011, 10:17 AM
Well Reid picked a couple of outright tax & spend Socialists , so it does not look good .

Cowlesy
08-10-2011, 10:19 AM
Who the hell is Rob Portman?

Director of the Office of Management/Budget under George W. Bush for a while (ofuk) and worked on a task force with Senator Kerrey back in the 1990's to restructure the IRS (ohIquit).

Occam's Banana
08-10-2011, 11:09 AM
No offense, but it would have been a complete farce even with them.

12 person committee, right?

So 11 beats one, every time. Even if all three of those suggestions made it, it would still be 9-3.

Bottom line:

They're not going to let us win. We have to win without their permission.

It's probably a farce either way, because there's an even number of people on this committee, so if we had principled republicans sitting on the committee, it would end in a 6 to 6 tie, every time, every issue.

it's also a farce because it's unconstitutional.

This. I suspect that the one and only purpose of the so-called "super-congress" is to create a bottleneck that will make it practically impossible to effect any significant change.

It will also serve as an excellent prophylactic against any possible anti-status-quo "insurgency" - should the Tea Party, for example, make any significant gains in the next Congressional elections.

flightlesskiwi
08-10-2011, 12:26 PM
This. I suspect that the one and only purpose of the so-called "super-congress" is to create a bottleneck that will make it practically impossible to effect any significant change.

It will also serve as an excellent prophylactic against any possible anti-status-quo "insurgency" - should the Tea Party, for example, make any significant gains in the next Congressional elections.

perhaps the name "stupor congress" would be apropo. in that-- this whole idea is constitutionally insensible.

KingRobbStark
08-10-2011, 12:34 PM
This is bullshit. This is going to be the FED all over again.

anaconda
08-10-2011, 12:49 PM
This is a complete farce without Jim DeMint, Rand Paul or Mike Lee.

Now that would be a controversial group to appoint!

thehungarian
08-10-2011, 12:49 PM
Who the hell is Rob Portman?

Exactly what I thought at first. Never heard the name before.

Hensarling and Toomey are decent picks. Would have been nice to see Flake as well.

anaconda
08-10-2011, 12:50 PM
Only Ron Paul's veto as POTUS will stop this nonsense.

realtonygoodwin
08-10-2011, 01:13 PM
I can't believe you all never heard of Portman... I fully expected to see him and Kyl on this. I hoped maybe DeMint, but was worried McCain would be chosen. Toomey is good compared to that!