“So now, we will face further hostage-taking by the Republicans when it comes to the debt ceiling raise, and the continuing budget resolution later this year if this deal goes through. Why should the Republicans expect the President to act differently in those upcoming battles? After all, he’s given up so much in concessions to the Republicans, and has moved consistently to the right in giving the Republicans what they want, instead of the Republicans moving further to the center.
The President is a horrible negotiator, which makes sense since he sees himself as post-partisan, and not representing the values of the Democratic Party, or in negotiating from a progressive position. Coming into this battle, the Democrats had all the leverage, and now they are losing it because any deal is better to President Obama than a deal that actually acknowledges what the American people voted for. An actual tax increase on the wealthy above $250,000, and not this paltry tax increase on incomes above $500,000.
We progressives have often been accused of not being able to compromise, but in all actuality, we do acknowledge that there has to be compromise. However, the way the White House is going about it is NOT compromise. It is pure and utter needless capitulation over a manufactured crisis. None of this needed to happen, but it did because the White House let this happen back then.”
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The President is a horrible negotiator, which makes sense since he sees himself as post-partisan, and not representing the values of the Democratic Party, or in negotiating from a progressive position. Coming into this battle, the Democrats had all the leverage, and now they are losing it because any deal is better to President Obama than a deal that actually acknowledges what the American people voted for. An actual tax increase on the wealthy above $250,000, and not this paltry tax increase on incomes above $500,000.
We progressives have often been accused of not being able to compromise, but in all actuality, we do acknowledge that there has to be compromise. However, the way the White House is going about it is NOT compromise. It is pure and utter needless capitulation over a manufactured crisis. None of this needed to happen, but it did because the White House let this happen back then.”
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Daily Kos: Democrats Lose Leverage On Fiscal Cliff
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