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Discretionary spending cuts the democrats will hate. those dreaded triggered cuts, the ones that each party will hate, are supposed to provide the incentive for the super committee to come up with something smarter, something more acceptable to both parties. but what if the automatically triggered cuts are not so automatic after all? joining me now is ryan grim, washington bureau chief for "huffington post" who wrote about this today. ryan, thanks for joining me. >> thanks for having me. >> ryan, the title of your piece today, "super committees, cuts, anything but automatic." what did we miss ...

Actually load that gun. in the torture debt ceiling deal passed in august, congress created a super committee that is empowered to write legislation that has a guaranteed route to a vote. in other words, it just cannot be filibustered. can't be stopped. and the super committee's legislation must cut the deficit by $1.2 trillion using any mix of tax revenue increases or spending cuts that the majority of the super committee can agree to. if the super committee fails to produce such a bill or if congress fails to pass it, that will automatically trigger $1.2 trillion in budget cuts that neither ...

They may have forgotten to actually load that gun. in the torture debt ceiling deal passed in august, congress created a super committee that is empowered to write legislation that has a guaranteed route to a vote. in other words, it just cannot be filibustered. can't be stopped. and the super committee's legislation must cut the deficit by $1.2 trillion using any mix of tax revenue increases or spending cuts that the majority of the super committee can agree to. if the super committee fails to produce such a bill or if congress fails to pass it, that will automatically trigger $1.2 trillion i...