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Originally Posted by Bucco
Lets insure that your comments are kept in the proper perspective.
You do NOT mention that they had a deal and then the President UPPED the deal which made a tough sale for Boehner, an impossible one.
From the link..
"Obama, nervous about how to defend the emerging agreement to his own Democratic base, upped the ante in a way that made it more difficult for Boehner — already facing long odds — to sell it to his party."
I realize you will always defend this administration and that is fine but it should be in total context.
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Read the article. The ante was upped by the Gang of Six, a bipartisan group of forward-thinking legislators. Obama was reacting to the much more aggressive proposal for spending cuts and tax increases proposed by them right in the middle of his negotiations with Boehner. A badly handled negotiation? Yes. But both Obama and Boehner were placed in a position where neither of them could 'deliver' their base constituencies to anything close to what the Gang of Six had proposed. From that point forward, the parties assumed a CYA mentality, blaming the other guys for the failed negotiations.
And that's what some of you continue to do...blame only one party to he negotiations. It's pretty clear that the Gang of Six, while well-intentioned, put both Obama and Boehner in a position that assured the failure of their negotiations.
As much as anything, it's a demonstration on how broken our system of government really is. If you want to place more of the blame on the POTUS based on the moor trance of is office, that's fair I suppose. But this incident of legislative failure had a lot of authors.