I have no idea what these folks can be thinking.  There is no so called super congress and they have no authority at all.  They certainly do not bind anyone to anything and until and as such there is a constitutional amendment to provide such a body, they have no authority to form one nor does that body if formed have any authority.  Everyone in Washington has gone round the bend totally!

Market Ticker

Posted 2011-07-24 13:51
by Karl Denninger
in Editorial

We Don't Need No Steenking Constitution!

The outrages just keep coming from Washington...

WASHINGTON -- Debt ceiling negotiators think they've hit on a solution to address the debt ceiling impasse and the public's unwillingness to let go of benefits such as Medicare and Social Security that have been earned over a lifetime of work: Create a new Congress.

This "Super Congress," composed of members of both chambers and both parties, isn't mentioned anywhere in the Constitution, but would be granted extraordinary new powers. Under a plan put forth by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and his counterpart Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), legislation to lift the debt ceiling would be accompanied by the creation of a 12-member panel made up of 12 lawmakers -- six from each chamber and six from each party.

"Super Congress"?

I seem to remember that The Constitution establishes a republican form of government with three branches - Legislative, Judicial and Executive. That it then sets forward two houses in the Legislative branch - a House and a Senate.

I have long (for more than 20 years in fact) argued that we totally screwed the pooch and may have sown the seed of destruction of our republic when we passed the 17th Amendment, in that prior to that time a state could recall a Senator who was doing things the state legislature did not approve of. It thus was impossible for Congress to ram down the state's throats programs and costs that they were unwilling to absorb on their own. The 17th Amendment is especially perverse in that it is effectively impossible to repeal it without calling a general Constitutional convention, in that to do so senators would have to vote for their own expulsion from the body.

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