"Super Congress"

There isn't very much to say about this proposal for a "super Congress." Congress can set its own rules; if each House of Congress wants to make it such that certain bills cannot be amended or filibustered, I don't see why they can't do that. But what's obvious about the super Congress is that it is neither super nor a Congress. That is to say, it is a body constructed without any direct democratic input and, fittingly for such an institution, it lacks any legislative power. It has recommendation power, in that it can recommend legislation to the actual, legislatively-empowered Congress which the latter will deem itself unusually eager to consider. But no actual legislative power: its proposals still could not become law without, you know, the usual mechanism of being passed by both Houses of Congress and signed by the President. A better proposal than this would probably be to just abolish the filibuster and, perhaps, tighten the rules surrounding amendments. Of course, no one would think that those reforms would make unpopular deficit-reduction bills more likely to pass, 'cause if there aren't 50 votes in the Senate and 218 votes in the House none of it matters. I can't see why the same complaint wouldn't apply to the "super" "Congress" either.