[laughter] i've always dreamed of encasing harry reid's skeleton in adamantium, or making mitch mcconnell into a ninja turtle. [laughter] but it turns out, this "super congress" is even cooler. >> it consists of 12 lawmakers, evenly divided between the two parties, the rest of congress would not be allowed to amend or filibuster its recommendations. >> stephen: yes, only twelve lawmakers. this is great because the real problem with congress has always been too many reasonable people. [laughter] but even better, only twelve people have to make these unpopular recommendations. that way, when social security and medicare get cut, the non "super congress" can say, "hey, i didn't push grandma in front of that train, i just voted in favor of those twelve guys doing it." [laughter] of course, even that might make incumbents politically vulnerable, so instead of voting on supercongressional legislation, congress should just vote up or down on ream of blank paper. [laughter] nobody knows what was passed until the effects start showing up. say, grandma starts eating dog food. [laughter] sure, she's