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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"I have gone at least halfway in meeting some of the Republican concerns."
Obama's own words.
Despite winning the election, despite there being NO reason to give the GOP anything, Obama gave into his bi-partisan fetish and moved to the right HARD.
He just rescued the GOP from ignominious defeat by granting legitimacy to their demands by going "halfway".
Here's is my prediction of the deal:
1) GOP will get no tax increase up to $1 million.
2) GOP will get chained CPI cuts for Social Security.
3) Many people board will tell me Obama didn't cave, or make a bad deal, or that the "perfect is the enemy of the good" and the "compromise" was reasonable.
a geek named Bob
(2,715 posts)He's working to make the GOP look like the moonbats that they are...
Kelvin Mace
(17,469 posts)past history points to my interpretation.
I'd love to be wrong.
a geek named Bob
(2,715 posts)jollyreaper2112
(1,941 posts)Obama: I'd like to stay alive.
GOP: We want to see you hanging from a tree.
Obama: Can we compromise with me giving myself a vigorous kick to my own balls?
GOP: If by compromise you mean us letting you kick yourself in the balls while we find a rope, yes, you Kenyan socialist fuck.
Obama: Bipartisan success!
jsr
(7,712 posts)leftstreet
(36,109 posts)Excellent statement
Look for 4 more years of the same
woo me with science
(32,139 posts)We are bought and sold, and it's time to say, "enough."
Skidmore
(37,364 posts)GOP to blow things up. They are incapable of doing anything but Norquist's bidding. We will go off the cliff and it will be them diving first and dragging the nation behind.
Kelvin Mace
(17,469 posts)but I have heard this noise before and it always meant capitulation.
Hope I am wrong.