Just days after suggesting the Republicans who didn't agree to the compromise that created a budget Super Committee were crabby and irresponsible, several media outlets began complaining about the deficiencies of the new super committee. The Washington Post found it to be too white and male, and the AP lamented its representatives were too cozy with defense contractors. Post reporter Felicia Sonmez asserted the super-committee had ideological diversity, “But the group’s membership is marked by a problem that has plagued Congress — a lack of gender and racial diversity.”