According to Greg Sargent of the Washinton Post (The Plum Line), Democrats in Congress are seriously discussing hijacking the Congressional defict super committee to make it about job growth also:
[Dem Rep. John Larson of Connecticut] and Dems plan to introduce several proposals next week along these lines to amend the current law creating the super-committee — and they will ask Congress to pick from among them. One proposal would simply amend the super-committee’s current mission to include job creation.
The second would ask each of the four Congressional leaders to appoint one more person to the committee, bringing its membership to 16 — and create a sub-committee on job creation that would produce a jobs proposal as part of the final deficit reduction package.
Here’s the interesting part: Both those proposals would require that the “trigger” also kick in if the committee fails to agree on a jobs proposal as part of the overall deficit deal. And both would set a clear goal: The proposal has to represent a credible effort to bring unemployment down to 5.5 percent by 2014. If the committee can’t pass such a proposal, the “trigger,” which contains defense and non-defense cuts to discourage the committee from failing, gets pulled.
Larson and Dems will next week also introduce his original idea of a separate super-committee. And then, in September, Dems will present the super comittee itself with all three of these proposals, have the committee debate it, and state a preference. Then there would be a full Congressional vote on it.
Larson tells me that both Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer are on board with this plan.
I like this. Republicans may vote it down, but if so, it will be more evidence that they are doing nothing to create jobs and are actively sabotoging the economy.
I like it. We pull the trigger unless you have a real jobs plan to get to 5.5 percent by 2014.
It's time for a war against those trying to destroy America.
Combined with a jobs plan by Obama, let's keep pressure on Republicans. They must own the consequences of their actions in destroying the economy and then keeping it down.
Trigger that Republican ashats!