The Supercommittee was established by Congress to dump the necessary yet unpopular responsibility of cutting costs and raising revenue.
Now, the Supercommittee is at an impasse, unable to bring two sides together on compromising debt reduction.
Democrats and liberals want spending increase.
Republicans and conservatives favor spending cuts.
No one wants to touch entitlements, the largest source of revenue drain in the United States Government.
Leadership in limiting government requires exactly that -- leadership.
Diligence free of political calculation, free of the fear that a cut in one key department will not harm a core constituency.
Michigan Governor Rick Snyder has authorized emergency managers to take over failing school districts and municipalities who cannot discharge their debts. Unlike many politicians in the Beltway and around the country, Snyder has recognized the political reality that political machines will never cut their spending on their own. To close their ranks, to institute real fiscal responsibility in the future, political expediency must be forthcoming.
In Ancient Rome, the Senate would appoint a dictator in times of emergency, whether for military ventures, public works projects. What is needed now more than ever are executives who will act like dictators during this fraught time of fiscal crisis.
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie wields a line-item veto like a machete. Governor Walker of Wisconsin ushered in public sector reforms, despite the Democratic caucus' unethical flight from the Madison state house to stall the inevitable. Executive authority, not legislative deliberation, is the rule for ending Big Government and securing a passable future for the United States of America.
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