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To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (40778)	1/29/2010 6:46:45 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) of 71588

Extremely likely if and only if something that has almost zero percent chance of happening sums up to "just about zero chance of happening", in the real world. In that unlikely (and that's putting it very mildly) hypothetical it would almost certainly happen. Imagine the panel suggested cutting defense in half, or a cutting social security benefits by 20%, or dropping a quarter of the Medicare or Medicaid rolls, or closing the national parks, or even something less extreme but still massively politically unpopular. If they had to cancel the panel to stop the recommendations, than congress would do so in a heartbeat and thoughts of "flipflopping" wouldn't even slow them down, while the issue of an election year would make the cancellation of the panel even swifter and surer. But of course congress simple doesn't have to cancel the panel to keep its recommendations from happening. They would simply vote the plan down. If they liked parts of it, than they would in effect modify the plan that they supposedly can't modify, by voting it down, grabbing the parts they like, dumping the parts they don't and putting it all in a new bill.

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