The super commitee was congresses plan. It was by partisan, and equally staffed bu dems and pubs.That plan was touted to be something that couldn't happen when SANE people got together. The tax increase, that satisfied the pubs affected >07% of the population. As far as I'm concerned let it go fully into effect. Any who thinks 22 weeks of budget cuts is going to solve our problems, has his head buried in his butt.