Framing the Issues Series

The Joint Select committee on Deficit Reduction (the "Super-Committee") has a looming deadline of Wednesday, November 23rd, to deliver its recommendations to Congress on the method to reduce the Federal deficit by $1.2 trillion over ten years.  Those recommendations then face a simple up or down vote.  Failure to deliver recommendations or failure of those recommendations to pass Congress will trigger automatic deficit reduction mechanisms previously established.  And, it is difficult to find anyone who likes that blunt-instrument method.  This all sounds mighty urgent and mighty important.  So, why can one hardly find mention of it in the news just