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GOP Strategic Retreat?

BigOlBear Wrote: Dec 08, 2012 12:36 PM
The Obama plan seems clear to me: 1. Take a tax rate hike position that the Republicans cannot accept, 2. Thus taking us over the cliff while the Republicans get the blame, 3. Then come back with the "Obama tax cuts" for the middle class. Our hero!
Moonbat Exterminator Wrote: Dec 08, 2012 1:06 PM
1.Respond to any Repub concession with a demand for twice your initial position.
Republicans are divided. President Obama won't budge. And more and more, it looks like the fiscal-cliff deadline of Dec. 31 will be missed.

It's now clear that Team Obama wants higher tax rates and revenue-raising tax-deduction caps to meet their $1.6 trillion revenue target. Spending cuts and entitlement reforms are vague to nonexistent. In fact, it could be that Obama not only rejects the across-the-board budget sequester, but that he actively seeks to raise spending, not cut it.

I guess it stands to reason that if you puff up his $800 billion revenue increase from last year, and double it to...

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