WaPo: Debt supercommittee suffers from lack of diversity

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By Felicia Sonmez, Sunday, August 14, 2:17 PM


With House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) announcement Thursday of her three appointees to the bipartisan debt “supercommittee,” the panel’s 12-member roster is now complete. It represents a broad range of ideological views, from House Republican Conference Chairman Jeb Hensarling (Tex.) on the right to Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) on the left.

But the group’s membership is marked by a problem that has plagued Congress — a lack of gender and racial diversity.

Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) is the only woman on the panel. House Democratic Caucus Vice-Chairman Xavier Becerra (Calif.) is the group’s only Hispanic. And House Assistant Democratic Leader James Clyburn (S.C.) is the only African American.

Neither Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) nor House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) appointed any women or minorities among their six picks for the panel. ............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/debt-supercommittees-membership-dominated-by-white-men/2011/08/12/gIQA6u6NFJ_story.html?hpid=z2

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1. No mention of IDEOLOGICAL diversity. They are all corporate hacks.

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3. +1

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2. Who cares. What's the difference if they pick a black woman corporate whore or a

white male corporate whore?

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4. At least the white male corporate whore is getting the chance.

nt

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5. Uh well, it's diverse on the Democratic side

Of the six, there are at least a woman, a Hispanic, and an African American. (And ideological diversity as well.)

Conservative white males on the R side.

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6. Sen. Murray (D) supported NAFTA

She betrayed hr labor supporters 100%!
And she's the eliberal member???