Partisanship trumps citizenship

The congressional super committee was charged with the task of coming up with solutions and plans to address the debt and deficit crisis in this country. Its goal was to trim the federal budget by $1.2 trillion over 10 years.

This week it announced it had failed.

Its bipartisan members could not come to agreement on how to solve the nation’s looming budget problems.

The six Republicans and six Democrats accomplished nothing after weeks of meetings. They found compromise too distasteful even if compromise meant progress towards solving the current economic crisis.

Now, automatic cuts are slated...