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Obama's Got Lots of "Skin in the Game"

ThasicAlambra Wrote: Nov 30, 2012 4:59 PM

What everyone here doesn't seem to understand is this. The majority of Americans wanted exactly what Obama is suggesting. Sure, we on TH would like to see sanity and restraint, but most of 'We the People" want the freebies. It's over, game done, lights out. We lost and now the USA goes the way of Greece. Better is happens fast rather than slow and painfully.

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Obama's Got Lots of "Skin in the Game"

Guy's intriguing post below offers an interesting option for the GOP in the fiscal cliff talks: Embrace Simpson-Bowles.

But I think another element aside from a "constructive alternative" is missing from the Hill Republicans' psyches (and thus playbooks).

That is the realization that, whether or not Obama blames the GOP in the short term for taking us over the cliff, in the end, he's the President. He's the one who's supposed to be representing all of us -- yes, even the evil rich and those who didn't vote for him. If he doesn't negotiate seriously about the cliff and we...