Daily Kos diary of an incredibly candid Kerry letter on the supercommittee

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1. He is like the canary in the coal mine

He keeps jumping up and down yelling at us to stop the stupid and work for the good of the country ... and he is largely ignored.

This particular segment struck me hardest in this letter:

"The bottom line is that no Super Committee could succeed with Grover Norquist as its 13th member. Make no mistake: most Americans have never heard of Grover Norquist, but his interest group's "pledge" to never raise revenue doomed the committee to failure – in fact, when 33 Republican Senators signed a letter vowing to kill any agreement that included new revenue, they effectively created a foregone outcome. I have little appetite for these partisan pledges – the pledge I took as your United States Senator was to our Constitution and our country, not to a lobbyist named Grover Norquist."