Retiring Congressman Barney Frank (D-Mass.) spilled a few beans on Sunday morning when he said a majority of Democrats would sign off on a deal to lessen the military cuts that will result from the super committee's failure.So the Super Committee was a lie. Well, half a lie.
The Republicans never intended for the defense cuts to be real. And, if Barney is to be believed, Democrats knew in their hearts that they never intended it either. The only "real" cuts that anyone intended as payback for the Super Committee's "failure" were cuts to domestic spending (and phasing out of the Bush tax cuts). But †he reason defense spending was made a part of the failsafe was in order to give the Republicans an incentive to negotiate. Now we find out that neither party intended to give the GOP such an incentive.
