Again?
"You know what we really need now? A Super Committee!" said absolutely no one.
No one except a flailing Republican leadership team in the House.
House Republicans will bring to the floor a bill to create a bipartisan, bicameral committee to address the current fiscal impasse that has shut down much of the government and threatens a debt default.
A GOP leadership aide said the committee wouldn’t just handle the continuing resolution needed to fund the government. It would have broader jurisdiction similar to the 2011 Joint Committee on Deficit Reduction, also known as the supercommittee, and would cover the debt limit and other fiscal issues.
Because, boy howdy, those committees sure have proven to be the answer in the past. Or as Rep. Xavier Becerra (D-CA)
says: "Not again, not again. [...] Having served as a member of the so-called supercommittee, there was nothing super about it."
Hey, here's an idea. House Speaker John Boehner could just have the full committee—the House—vote on a clean continuing resolution to reopen government, and then they could maybe have an actual bicameral, bipartisan conference committee to figure out the long-term budget. Like Congress is supposed to do. That is, if Rump Speaker Ted Cruz will let them.
Tell John Boehner it's time to put up or shut up, and put a clean funding bill up for a vote.