Super Committee: Failure Is Best Option?

The bipartisan Super Committee is headed for failure, and that may be a good thing. While no one is actively campaigning to see the 12-member committee miss its Nov. 23 deadline for coming up with a $1.2 trillion deficit-reduction plan, that outcome will be silently welcomed by congressional partisans on both the Left and Right. They remain opposed to making compromises that would force them to abandon key planks in their election-year platforms.