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Postmortem on the Supercommittee

Dec 16th, 2011 | By
Postmortem on the Supercommittee

“After months of hard work and intense deliberations, we have come to the conclusion today that it will not be possible to make any bipartisan agreement available to the public before the committee’s deadline.” That declaration by co-chairs, Representative Jeb Hensarling (R-Texas) and Senator Patty Murray (D-Wash), is bound to mark the beginning of numerous postmortems by analysts trying to decide what went wrong with the so-called supercommittee formed this past August.  One thing is certain; despite last minute conferences and back-room politicking, nothing was accomplished. How It All Got Started When talks between President
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