HOW CAN LOG ROLLING BE UNWOUND? (COMMENT).

HOW CAN LOG ROLLING BE UNWOUND? (COMMENT). I posted several times about looking at the budget negotiations as a chicken game and Dick Weisfelder commented here about how the negotiations turned out. A 12 person super committee was appointed to make recommendations on a combination of measures, including expenditure cuts, to reduce the deficit. It occurs to me that the legislators have a lot of experience with log rolling—putting together a large number of programs and expenditures and other actions, each of which are highly valued to one or a few legislators, so as to pass a large complicated bill. A popular bill can be used as a “Christmas tree” on which various less popular provisions can be hung. Will this work in reverse? Here, on the whole, there are no popular provisions to carry along less popular ones. These are cuts which Congress does not want to make. How do you paste together coalitions in these circumstances?