Comments on: Debt panel fails, poll indicates who gets the blame. https://habitablezone.com/2011/11/21/debt-panel-fails-poll-indicates-who-gets-the-blame/ Fri, 03 Apr 2026 18:20:54 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: TB https://habitablezone.com/2011/11/21/debt-panel-fails-poll-indicates-who-gets-the-blame/#comment-8687 TB Thu, 24 Nov 2011 02:24:30 +0000 http://habitablezone.com/?p=5431#comment-8687 <p>All MSNBC is doing is polling their own echo chamber.</p> And they're well aware of it. Most of us knew this "supercommittee" was doomed the minute they invented it to get out of the debt ceiling fiasco. Like the debt ceiling fight, the only use for the committee is as a political weapon. Ask yourself who benefits from its failure. For a more useful poll, go <a href="http://www.quinnipiac.edu/x1284.xml?ReleaseID=1675&What=&strArea=6;&strTime=0" rel="nofollow">here.</a> All MSNBC is doing is polling their own echo chamber.

And they’re well aware of it.

Most of us knew this “supercommittee” was doomed the minute they invented it to get out of the debt ceiling fiasco. Like the debt ceiling fight, the only use for the committee is as a political weapon. Ask yourself who benefits from its failure.

For a more useful poll, go here.

]]> By: Lee https://habitablezone.com/2011/11/21/debt-panel-fails-poll-indicates-who-gets-the-blame/#comment-8684 Lee Thu, 24 Nov 2011 00:51:07 +0000 http://habitablezone.com/?p=5431#comment-8684 <p>Projected spending "cuts" of $1.2 trillion over 10 years sounds like a failure to me.</p> That means they'll only by borrowing around $1.5 trillion more a year. Projected spending “cuts” of $1.2 trillion over 10 years sounds like a failure to me.

That means they’ll only by borrowing around $1.5 trillion more a year.

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