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" When the history of this time is written, the work of the SuperCommittee (!) is going to be reckoned to be the biggest fix since the 1919 World Series. Of course, there are not going to be any significant cuts in defense, try as Leon Panetta or the Wall Street Journal&amp;#039;s editorial board may. Cuts are for the poor and the sick and the old. Of course, any &amp;quot;revenue increases&amp;quot; that the Republicans agree to are going to amount to what falls out of the pocket of a Koch brother while he&amp;#039;s poisoning a river somewhere. Of course, &amp;quot;entitlements&amp;quot; are going to be &amp;quot;reformed&amp;quot; until they are not recognizable. Of course, people will celebrate the &amp;quot;tough decisions&amp;quot; that have no material effect on their lives, but are for the rest of us, who do not count. Of course, Barack Obama will get no credit at all, but will be cast as the president who raised taxes (minimally, and on people who&amp;#039;ll never feel it) and slashed Medicare. All of this was eminently predictable the moment the Democrats signed onto this moronic bid for Meet the Press credibility. They should have thrown a fruit plate at Lindsey Graham four months ago and stormed out en masse. I think it&amp;#039;s time to move the goddamn capital to Bismarck. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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