Kuros
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Please explain where Obama compromised?
What has he offered up other than the obvious that both agreed needed to be done?
Boehner: Back to Biden, please
When the Republican leadership orchestrated the Eric Cantor June 23rd walkout of the debt ceiling talks, led by Joe Biden, the strategy was to up the ante by forcing President Obama to engage them.
Obama offered a grand deal -- huge cuts across the board, including substantial rollbacks of Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security benefits -- but including the suspension of economically distorting tax benefits for the rich and highly profitable firms, particularly ethanol and oil, that were gorging themselves on public dollars.
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Now, John Boehner is showing that he is trapped in an ideological bind with his own constituents and that Obama is too overwhelming for him. The big deal won't work, Boehner says, because Boehner can't get his caucus to do the deal of the era because it involves minor revenue increases. They'd rather default on the national debt and undermine global trust in the United States as a political stunt.
I don't even blame Boehner, anymore (I will continue to blame Cantor, though). I blame the right-wingers who won't tax an ounce to cut a pound.
I am curiouis....do you truly believe that the GOP were willing to commit political suicide by reforming MC, MC and SS?
Dont you realize...those substantial cuts in MC MC and SS were not "offered by the President"...they were "givens"...and nether party wanted to do it...but it MUST be done...
But for some reason, the democrats are getting "cheers" for giving in on that.
Interesting how that works.....no?
The cuts to entitlements must be done because nobody is willing to increase taxes on the middle-class.
Baby boomers want their entitlements and want to unload the debt onto our generation. This has little to do with party and everything to do with generational theft.