Florida's congressional representatives quickly called out the dogs of partisan blame as the supercommittee was unable to make any “bipartisan agreement” on needed debt reduction on Monday.

Florida’s Democrats charged that Republicans showed no willingness to negotiate as they wouldn’t consider tax increases even if countered by larger cuts.

The failure of the congressionally appointed 12-member Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction -- better known as the supercommittee -- was the president’s fault for not providing direction, responded Florida Republicans.

“Instead, the president and this administration would rather sit back and watch automatic cuts kick in that will be devastating to our military -- ripping $600 billion from defense in 10 years,” U.S. Rep. Allen West, R-West Palm Beach, stated in a release. “At a time when America's enemies are more emboldened than ever, our military needs to be supported, not shredded.”

"Despite our inability to bridge the committee's significant differences, we end this process united in our belief that the nation's fiscal crisis must be addressed and that we cannot leave it for the next generation to solve," read a statement from committee co-chairmen U.S. Rep. Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas, and Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash.

U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Miami, called the committee “a flawed idea from the start.”

“While I give credit to several of its members for making a good-faith effort, its fate was sealed by the president’s failure to put forward a plan to cut spending and his unbreakable obsession with raising taxes on job creators,” Rubio stated in a release.

“The consequences of this Washington-style leadership failure are not only a missed opportunity to rein in our debt, but also a step toward devastating cuts to our national security efforts. In sum, this threatens to leave us with a diminished economy, a less secure future and on track for our own Greece- and Italy-like day of reckoning.

“We need to cut spending and save entitlements without enacting job-killing tax hikes that would hurt our economy. Until the American people rid Washington of politicians who are addicted to spending and intolerant of fundamental spending reforms, our job creators won’t have the confidence to go out and do what they do best, and our people will continue to suffer."

Under the terms of the committee, if no deal could be reached by Monday, giving Congress time to review the proposal by the Nov. 23 deadline, automatic spending cuts, called sequestering, would go into effect.

The cuts include $600 billion to defense.

Obama said Monday he would veto any effort to block the sequestered spending cuts.

“I am calling on President Obama to step up and be a leader and introduce legislation that will restore these automatic cuts to our military,” West stated. “We cannot put our country in danger because of partisan antics. The American people are sick and tired of Washington, D.C., and there's a good reason why. The failure of this supercommittee is an embarrassment to Congress and to the American people.”

U.S. Rep. Tom Rooney, R-Tequesta, said the nation will have to find money somewhere to prevent the automatic cuts that will go into place for defense.

“Devastating cuts to nat’l defense w/o deficit agreement,” Rooney tweeted. “Economy & Security will suffer.”

The committee was established in August out of the debt-ceiling crisis where Congress approved the Budget Control Act which increased the debt ceiling by $400 billion. The committee, made up of six Republicans and six Democrats, was directed to examine everything from entitlement programs such as Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security to the tax code, military spending and even revenue increases.

Across the aisle, Rep. Corrine Brown, D-Jacksonville, announced she wasn’t “surprised or disappointed” by the results of the committee which she didn’t initially support when approved by Congress.

“We did not get into this mess overnight and it was unrealistic to believe that a small group could or even should fix a decade-long problem in few weeks, especially when Republicans refused to raise net revenues,” Brown stated in a release.