You needed a playbook to follow the negotiations over the debt ceiling in Washington this weekend. Official statements, hastily arranged press conferences, back-room, bare-knuckle negotiations were the order of the day.

The good news - they were actually working to find some common ground on our $14 trillion in federal debt. Unfortunately, they didn't find any. So, by Sunday morning, they went back to doing what they are really good at - finger pointing and name calling.

Meanwhile, the debt gets worse every minute of every day. This year, the federal government is spending $126,000 every second. President Obama is spending more than any other president before him - some $4.1 billion per day.

Worse, when it comes to budgeting, congress seems to be clueless. The Democratic Senate hasn't produced a budget in 27 months. But maybe inaction is better than delusion.

The debt ceiling plan devised by Senate leaders Harry Reid and Mitch McConnell boasts savings of $1.2 trilllion - or a third of its total savings - from ending wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Uh, pardon me, fellas, but you haven't done that yet. These guys could always run a shell game if this elected official gig doesn't work out.

Meanwhile, if you want to see what our future is likely to look like - look across the pond to Greece. The financially strapped country finally pulled together a bailout package. European leaders last week approved a rescue plan that combines $156 billion in fresh financing with $37 billion in debt relief from the private sector.

But credit rating agencies aren't buying it. Greek debt got downgraded again and now Moody's is saying a true default is certain.

And, that should be a lesson for the shell gamers in DC. We need more than just a short-term fix here. We need a real plan that has a real chance of cutting our debt in the long term and over the long haul.

Some in Washington believe they have the answer. They want a special 12 member panel or Super Congress made up of 12 lawmakers six from each chamber and each party. Legislation from this super body would then be fast-tracked through both chambers where it couldn't be amended by simple regular lawmakers - you know the ones we elected to office.

The real intent of this idea is pretty clear - cut the influence of the tea partiers and anybody else who gets in the way of the legislative steamroller.

I can't think of anything quite so anti-democratic. Why can't the people we elected come to agreement? Why, instead, put in place a fake panel - never mentioned in the Constitution? Well maybe it's just another way of kicking the can down the road - pushing the responsibility onto someone else and ducking the difficult jobs these folks were elected to do.

Super Congress? Super stupid.