How will the White House hold up in budget negotiations?

They (both sides) seem to want to have agreement by the 4th of July. I gave up on the Obama Administration last December when they caved on the Bush Tax Cuts so I have no great expectations for this negotiation. In short the Republicans are wrong on every aspect of the issue and it is my expectation that the Administration is sure to go alone on most of what they demand no matter how much damage it does to the average man or woman. How do you think its going to turn out?

By conceding that any part of the problem included domestic spending, we have already lost.

And wind up doing the wrong thing because they just didn't have a choice. But next time they'll be all prepared and stuff.

crazy Republican demands are just excuses to do what politicians on both sides really want.

I ask this because to be more upset about extending the tax cuts for the rich, then say for Obama keeping his promise to not raise taxes on the 95% of Americans who make under 250k, you have to see the deficit as the key problem.

Now ... what happens if July 4th comes and goes, and no cuts to Medicare or Social Security occur?

I ask this because these "imminent cuts" have been predicted on DU and other places for more than a year. Roughly monthly. Each time, nothing has happened.

Who knows, maybe THIS time is the time that those predictions are proven true.

It is not the nibbing bites here and there or even as large a chunk of the problem as the deficit or the treatment of seniors who have spent a lifetime paying into a system that will now be denied to them, a system that will be turned over to vultures to pick the bones of those who managed to save. Nope, that's not it for me. For me its the entire front of the assault. Its the attack on our privacy, it the attack on education, its the attack on women, its the attack on moral values, its the turning of religion against religion, and region against region. Those are the pressing issues for me, but only when they are all rolled up in a great terrible ball.

Take the middle position, then bargain away
It's why I've said, he'd fail as a sports agent.