Public Split on Parties' Super Committee Ideas

At National Journal:

With the super committee scheduled to report its findings to Congress in just two weeks, a new survey finds that slightly more Americans favor a Democratic proposal to pare the deficit with cuts and revenue increases on the wealthy rather than a cuts-only approach.

By a margin of 49 percent to 44 percent, the public favored the Democratic plan suggested earlier this month that would include “$4 trillion in deficit reduction through a combination of federal spending cuts and tax increases on wealthier Americans” over “a Republican plan that calls for $3 trillion in deficit reduction through spending cuts alone, with no tax increases.” A small number of voters—7 percent—said neither one, said they didn’t know, or refused to answer.

With the super committee appearing deadlocked over how to get to $1.2 trillion in cuts—lest automatic sequestration go into effect in 2013—the American people seem no more unified than the politicians who represent them. However, when individual ideas are tested with the public, and not identified as being the progeny of any political party, the Democratic-proposed solutions score very well. That suggests that the party’s congressional strategy of holding a slew of Senate votes on pieces of the president’s jobs package—which went down to defeat earlier this fall—may be a wise idea even though it has yet to produce lasting gains in President Obama’s job approval, let alone Congress’s.

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And at Fox News, "Super Committee Democrats Reject GOP Tax Proposal," and Hot Air, "Report: Democrats walk away from Super Committee? Update: I hope they can’t make a deal, says Dem rep."