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Originally Posted by Villages Kahuna
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.
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My single motivation was to ensure the simple sentence by DJPLONG did not stand alone.....my add just put it into context and there was no attempt to blame or compliment.
I am well aware of what happend...I am well aware that much of the problem needs to be shared...but you just cant let this stand alone..
"So, when Boehner and Obama came to a deal during one of these incidents and the *Freshman* Republicans scuttled it - THAT was Obama's fault?"
THAT sentence makes is NONE of Obama's fault which I assume was the intent.
By the way, I got registered at the POST...I have gotten into such a habit of just leaving when I see a screen resembling that.....so many are pay now.