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The GOP and Round Two

chicaree Wrote: Jan 02, 2013 2:54 PM

Start cutting after the recovery becomes stronger. Yes cutting will and must happen but when it is still tittering is not the time for massive layoffs. They have the Simpson -Bowles out line that will bring the deficit into manageable levels. Give it a little bit more time. But don't still back a insist on cut cut cut because cutting is hurts people. More so than weathly paying a larger share. I can pay more taxes. I would not object to paying more taxes.

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The GOP and Round Two

President Obama won the first round of his second term, but thanks to Mitch McConnell the beating wasn’t as severe as it could have been.

The period between the election and the turn of the calendar was dominated by the president, with Speaker John Boehner as his foil. The Speaker always seemed to assume the president was negotiating in good faith, even as the campaign events continued, and even as he was pummeled day and night by the president and his surrogates in the MSM.

The collapse of the Speaker's and the GOP’s ability to make an argument was complete...

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