1) Some Commissions That “Worked” Really Didn’t.<\/b> The Greenspan Commission, which is often held up as the apotheosis of commissions, didn’t actually work<\/a>. According to this<\/a> 2) Commissions Can’t Find Solutions If We Don’t Agree on the Problems. <\/b>Another example often cited as evidence of a commission’s mystical 3) Commissions Won’t Work Now, Anyway.<\/b> Remember the “Gang of Six”<\/a> charged with guiding health care reform? That was like a lot Washington is a strange city. Congress is stacked with politicians who already spend plenty of hours thinking about and disagreeing over public policy. But somehow, we think that putting them in a room and telling them “You’re a commission!” will provoke a chorus of kumbaya, no matter the issue. It’s as if politicians think they […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nNew York Times article, the commission designed to fix Social Security
\nin the early 1980s was deadlocked before Reagan privately brokered a
\ndeal with House Speaker Tip O’Neill to raise payroll taxes and trim
\nbenefits. To be sure, the commission provided the political cover for
\ntwo enemies to strike a compromise. But that means that at best it was
\na convenient facade rather than an effective policy-brainstorming tool.<\/p>\n
\npowers is the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission. That
\npanel met when Congress decided it needed to close excess military
\nbases. But as Stan Collender writes<\/a>,
\n“it start(ed) with an agreement that bases and other DOD facilities
\nshould be cut. The only question, therefore, is which ones.” There is
\nno analogous agreement on Capitol Hill that taxes should be raised, or
\nthat Medicare benefits should be cut, or the Social Security needs
\ntinkering. There is only the obscure fear that our
\ndeficit needs to be a smaller number.<\/p>\n
\nlike a commission in that it was a group of politicians sitting a small
\nroom together for a long time, contributing to the illusion that the
\ncrucial criterion in any political compromise is a compact seating
\narrangement. The Gang of Six produced nothing except anxiety and the lie that health care reform was an issue within the scope of bipartisan compromise. Its leader Max Baucus
\nemerged with his own health care bill three months later, which unnecessarily delayed
\nthe HRC process by a quarter-year.
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