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A fine mess now, Ollie. It was a mistake from the first to allow S&P, Moody’s and the others an unelected overview and a voice in the life of sovereign American states. Now, like those tragically broken school systems in Atlanta and Pennsylvania, the ones with so many erasures on tests that the odds are 3 trillion to one that they are authentic, this Congress with the lowest rating in American history calls for a “supercommittee” of its own members to repair itself.

We have just recently had a supercommittee called the Simpson/Bowles Commission. To the surprise of some, it brought quite a dignified, fair and sensible beginning. Congress ignored it and so did the president. Sen. Mark Warner (D) of Virginia did not get the credit deserved in the debt-ceiling debate, although his opinion and that of the Gang of Six incorporated Simpson/Bowles conclusions. And as one commentator said, there is already a supercommittee to discuss these issues ... it is called! the Congress.

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