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Anatomy of a Flop: GOP "Cliff" Counter-Offer Fizzles

Jay Wye Wrote: Dec 04, 2012 2:41 PM

a POX on the morons who keep feeding the trolls here on TH. You're HELPING the trolls divert and clog up the discussion and comments. Does anyone here -want- to HELP Sybil? Or the other trolls? just flag them and pass them by. DON'T give them the attention they seek. STOP trying to show how much smarter you are than them. it doesn't work. (and it keeps them coming back for more)

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Anatomy of a Flop: GOP "Cliff" Counter-Offer Fizzles

Yesterday evening we reported the details of House Republicans' "fiscal cliff" compromise offer to the White House, which offered real ideological concessions, to the tune of $800 Billion in new revenues. The plan -- originally conceived last year by the Democratic co-chairman of the debt commission, Erskine Bowles -- also calls for the reduction of both discretionary and mandatory spending, making needed (albeit small-ball) reforms to the largest drivers of our debt. Unlike the president's risible, widely-panned proposal last week, Republicans' new negotiating posture offers genuine compromise: (a) It has bipartisan origins, (b) it achieves "balance," (c) it...