'The supercommittee: super-stalled'

from wapo.........

"Guess what? The Joint Select (Super) Committee appears to bedeadlocked, with Republicans refusing to consider any new taxes and Democrats refusing to do a spending-only deal (via Goddard’s Political Wire). That’s not a surprise at all to those who had low expectations for the JSC to begin with (see, for example, Stan Collender). Careful, though: In the unlikely event that a deal does get made, it’s unlikely that we would see much sign of it now"...............READ MORE