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This is worth mentioning amidst the near hysteria in the media over the prospect of a failed supercommittee. The Post piece began:
“If the congressional ‘supercommittee’ cannot agree on a plan to tame the federal debt by next week’s deadline, as now appears likely, here’s what will happen: nothing.”