Partisanship is destroying our legislative system and rejection of the Simpson-Bowles plan is case in point.
The Simpson-Bowles commission exists, or existed rather, because the President of the United States created it.
And yet, the three House Republican members on the Simpson-Bowles commission voted no, including Representative Ryan.
Some similar, we can imagine, to the Simpson-Bowles Commission, but with new consumption taxes now off the table.
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He had served on the Simpson-Bowles deficit commission but refused to endorse its final proposal, in December, 2010.
Furthermore, Governor Romney proposes revenue-neutral reform while the Simpson-Bowles Commission would raise taxes as a share of GDP.
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In principle, it mirrors the balance that was put forward by the Simpson-Bowles Commission, by the Domenici-Rivlin Commission.
That number exceeds what was contained in the Simpson-Bowles proposals -- exceeds -- in the first 10 years.
When the Simpson-Bowles plan emerged in darkest December two years ago, it was routinely ignored by official Washington.
During the Simpson saga, we talked about it publicly, then it went away.
The bombing trial jury deliberated four days, the Simpson jury about four hours.
While President Obama has not tried to act on any of the Simpson-Bowles recommendations, at least he created the Commission.
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There are enough Senate Democrats who support the Simpson Bowles proposals to pass such a bill through the Democrat controlled Senate.
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The Simpson-Bowles plan represents a legitimate way out of this crisis and a whole new way of looking at these issues.
And in fact, his budget proposal is different from the Simpson-Bowles approach.
The Simpson trial provides rich fodder for a reconsideration of such positions.
On Thursday Judge Ito signed an order setting a hearing next Tuesday to determine if Whitehurst's testimony is relevant to the Simpson case.
Apart from the Simpson masterpiece, Louisiana recently has hosted the filming of Oscar-winning biopic Ray (about Ray Charles) and the thriller Skeleton Key.
Prosecutors say the weekend interviews revealed Whitehurst has no information about the Simpson case, and they expect the judge to bar his testimony.
At the offices of the Simpson Bowles Deficit Reduction Commission, a skeleton staff could be seen removing boxes and furniture into moving trucks.
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There is a lot of loose talk that sometimes goes unchallenged, often by reporters, about who actually supports the principles behind the Simpson-Bowles commission.
Additional spending reductions proposed by House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan in his 2012 budget, and by the Simpson-Bowles Commission, would be adopted as necessary.
President Obama said he would commit to Medicare reform that would achieve the same savings as the Medicare reform proposed by the Simpson Bowles Commission.
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First there was the Simpson-Bowles commission, created by the White House.
The Simpson-Bowles plan does exactly what it was meant to do.
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He established the fiscal Bowles commission -- the fiscal commission -- I mean, the Simpson-Bowles commission, the fiscal commission that, because Congress would not, he established.
Blankfein appeared next to the authors of the Simpson-Bowles plan to avoid the fiscal cliff and balance the US budget while reducing the dangerous overhang of debt.
So a sizeable segment of the electorate is not yet aware of the Simpson-Bowles proposal or, more importantly, perhaps wanting more balance of increased revenue and less spending.
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