Reply #2: TPM on super committee. ..

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http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/11/dems-mock-latest-gop-super-committee-offer.php?ref=fpa_beta

Specifics aside, Democrats have never sounded less hopeful.

Dem co-chair Patty Murray said “it does not meet — even come close to coming to meet — the issues we have set out from the beginning: fair and balanced.”

Sen. John Kerry — who almost always claims to be hopeful for the committee — now says things look pretty grim. “If you’re going to ask every average American who drives a car, goes to work, struggles each day to pay their bill — if they’re going to somehow be part of the solution, to have something on the table that does not ask the wealthiest people in the country to share in it would be unconscionable,” Kerry said. “So this is the divide now. We’re still working. I hope we can get there. But I don’t know at this point.”