Re: The Fancy Feast Commission; Starting point or Non-starter?

[Uncle Joe]

Poll question: Re: The Fancy Feast Commission; Starting point or Non-starter?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=4609226&mesg_id=4609226

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-11-10/deficit-reduction-panel-s-plan-would-seek-to-cut-social-security-medicare.html

Bowles, former President Bill Clinton’s chief of staff, and Republican former Senator Alan Simpson of Wyoming announced the proposal in Washington today, stressing that it was intended as a starting point for discussion.

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Senator Dick Durbin, an Illinois Democrat, called the plan a “starting point for the conversation.”

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x9529484

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40111748/ns/politics-more_politics

However, the plan by Chairman Erskine Bowles and former Sen. Alan Simpson, the co-chairman, doesn't look like it can win the support from 14 commission members that is needed to force a debate in Congress. Bowles is a Democrat and was former President Bill Clinton's White House chief of staff. Simpson is a Wyoming Republican.

The two were among the first to acknowledge their plan's unpopularity — and to suggest it would be a nonstarter in Congress.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FfADNo7SO8

[Radical Activist]

1. It's clearly Obama's TRUE agenda!!1!!

Or it will be spun that way.

This stunt by the co-chairs is an indication that they don't expect their ideas to be approved by the full commission. I bet they agree on almost nothing.