WE NEED A 'SUPER CONGRESS' LIKE CUSTER NEEDED ANOTHER INDIAN

Tea party's newest target: Debt 'super committee'

• Submitted by Darla Dawald, National Director on August 5, 2011 at Patriot Action Alerts
• Tea party's newest target: Debt 'super committee'

Freshman Michael Grimm, center is already being asked to draft a bill to repeal the debt panel. | AP Photo Close

By JAKE SHERMAN & JAMES HOHMANN | 8/5/11 4:23 PM EDT

LAND O’ LAKES, Fla. — The super committee charged with finding more than $1 trillion in savings this year is quickly emerging as the latest reason for tea partiers to hate Washington.

Whether it’s at a town hall at a Catholic church here in western Florida, outside a Staten Island congressional office or on conservative activist web sites, the 12-person panel created as part of the massive debt ceiling deal isgetting battered just days after it became law and before its members are even named.

For tea party activists, the super committee smacks of everything they railed against in the last election cycle: Concentrated power in the hands of a few lawmakers who might be inclined to make closed door deals involving trillions of dollars.

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