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

rdk Wrote: Dec 05, 2012 10:33 AM
Obama does not care about the economic consequence. He wants to permanently brand Republicans as protectors of the rich; his ploy is working.
upwithRomney Wrote: Dec 05, 2012 7:34 PM
It IS working. It is working becaue it has become true. We are being used like puppets by the Kochs and Adelsons of the world who just want to protect their $$ by trying to get us to do their dirty work for them.
upwithRomney Wrote: Dec 05, 2012 7:34 PM
It IS working. It is working becaue it has become true. We are being used like puppets by the Kochs and Adelsons of the world who just want to protect their $$ by trying to get us to do their dirty work for them.
roman69 Wrote: Dec 05, 2012 12:22 PM
The republicans are alreasdy permanently branded as protectors of the rich. This is going to be their problem in 2014.

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...

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