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the goal was to outsource the blame, then the presi- dent’s fading away into the background was the perfect political ploy. Appointing a bipartisan
Super Committee with dramatic powers, and ap- parently dramatic conse- quences if they failed to reach agreement, created another long distraction in the media that took the president further out of the picture. When it came to media coverage of the country’s financial crisis, it was almost a question of “Barack Who?” The draconian spending
cuts that were supposed to hang over the heads of the members of the Super Committee, like a sword of Damocles, turned out to be a cardboard sword when the inevitable failure to reach an agreement oc- curred. A new Congress meets
before these draconian cuts are supposed to hap- pen -- and no Congress can be forced to do any- thing by a previous Con- gress. So all this turned out to be a grand charade -- and politicians are great at charades. This one was a complete
political success, because we are now talking about who is to blame for not coming up with a way of solving the fiscal crisis, rather than who did the runaway spending that caused that crisis in the first place. An even longer-running charade is the budget- cutting charade, where big spenders promise to make spending cuts to match tax increases -- or even to exceed tax increases. Of course the tax increases come first and the spend- ing cuts are spread out into the future -- and usu- ally end up not taking place at all. This particular charade
could be ended by mak- ing the spending cuts take place first. But that would spoil the political game.
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