The Editors of The Wall Street Journal, Paul Gigot and his colleagues, have pronounced their evaluation of the super committee's failure, and it is a good one:
The real reason for the super committee's failure: the two parties disagree profoundly on a vision of government.
The editorial points out correctly that the failure of the super committee was caused by the president's insistence on a large tax increase. I also like their conclusion:
Democrats are confident they can blame Republicans for the failure and ride their president's class war campaign to victory. Republicans have to counter with a message of economic growth and sensible reforms of our government institutions so the U.S. doesn't end up like Europe. This is for voters to decide. Let's have it out.
