6 people celebrating the super committee's collapse

Many in Washington emerge red-faced after failing to agree to any plan to cut the federal deficit. So why are some people smiling?

The super committee's failure to slash $1.2 trillion from future deficits may become a political advantage for House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and President Obama, pundits predict.
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There were plenty of losers in the collapse of the congressional "super committee," which announced Monday that it had failed to leverage its special budgetary powers into a bipartisan deficit-reduction deal. But not everybody is mourning "this sad moment in American democracy," says Michael Scherer at TIME. Here, six people who may be quietly cheering the super committee's demise:

1. Grover Norquist

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