“I don’t see much changing between the debate we just had and a debate two or three months from now,” Gordon said. “The members of the super committee are not members you would put together as some sort of moderate group (for) give and take on a lot of the issues.

“The question is, is the trigger that would be pulled if they failed to reach an agreement big enough to get them to separate off their normal party positions and I think that’s still indetermined,” he said.