Supercommittee Doomed to Failure

The Congressional Supercommittee was supposed to find and cut $1.2 trillion from the federal budget.

Even after Tea Party GOP Senator Pat Toomey proposed $300 billion in revenue increases, the Democrats balked, refusing to cut anything from entitlements.

The Supercommittee was a super failure, doomed from the outset by politicians beholden to double-minded constituents who still want to have their cake and eat it too; who feel entitled to other people's money, but refuse to earn and release any of their own.

Failure indeed was always an option, especially because the majority of Senators on the panel had just been elected or reelected, and they knew that they would outlast the media firestorm that would denigrate their consummate lack of trying.

The 2012 election is the one chance for the American people to make it clear -- we want less government, less debt, less waste, lower deficits.

Nothing less than these conditions will suffice, or this nation is doomed.