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

JediJoe Wrote: Dec 04, 2012 3:01 PM

At least the GOP proposals have all been in WRITING while the gutless, cowardly liberals won't even commit to putting their stupidity ON PAPER! Why? Because NOTHING they come up with solves the problem...they're cowards, pure and simple. They KNOW that entitlements are the driving issue but are predictably being pansies who FAIL at leading on fixing it waiting for the GOP to come up with REAL solutions they can take pathetic political pot-shots at. Godless Liberals are the cancer eating at this nation...

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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...