From The Hill:
Supercommittee member Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA) (R-Pa.) accused Democrats on Monday of torpedoing the deficit supercommittee because a success would have “stepped on” President Obama’s campaign narrative.
Speaking Monday on CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” Toomey said there’s “something to” suggestions that Democrats had an incentive to see the supercommittee fail.
“That goes to the asymmetry of the incentives and I think there was something to that,” Toomey said. “The president’s fundamental campaign message was to run against Congress — never mind the fact that half of Congress is controlled by the Democrats, but that’s his purpose, and certainly an agreement in this committee would have stepped on that narrative for the president.”
Toomey also suggested that some Democrats on the supercommittee were willing to negotiate with Republicans not to avoid the consequences of a failed committee, but rather “for their own personal satisfaction of having done something important.”
“That feeling wasn’t strong enough for them to overcome the left wing of their caucus screaming for big tax increases and ‘don’t touch the entitlements,’ which was the message they heard from that part of their party and unfortunately ultimately listened to,” he said.
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