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

JediJoe Wrote: Dec 04, 2012 2:52 PM

We just had an election that proved that very point...substance means nothing...cult worship lacking any substance won the election. The brainless leaches, deadbeats, and panhandlers voted to keep Santa Claus handing out someone elses's hard earned money. "America The Stupid" is a fitting epitaph for the idiots who stuck the arrogant little man-child back in the grown-up chair...

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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...