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Surreal: Obama's Fiscal Cliff Proposal Stuns Washington

meowbius Wrote: Nov 30, 2012 10:54 AM

I would love for GOP to place an ad in all strategic lib papers, same as "Petraeus-betray us" in NYT. It worked like an electric shock. This one must be same - full page pithy message: WE ARE NOT PLAYING CHICKEN WITH THE MADMAN, or to that effect. And then - vote "present". It's about time to stop compromizing. Half-measures will no help but just will tar GOP with complicity.

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Surreal: Obama's Fiscal Cliff Proposal Stuns Washington

Republicans have been asking for the White House's plan for some time now -- well, they finally got one. Oh my:

House Republicans said on Thursday that Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner presented the House speaker, John A. Boehner, a detailed proposal to avert the year-end fiscal crisis with $1.6 trillion in tax increases over 10 years, an immediate new round of stimulus spending, home mortgage refinancing and a permanent end to Congressional control over statutory borrowing limits. The proposal, loaded with Democratic priorities and short on detailed spending cuts, was likely to meet strong...