Sigh.
Republicans are holding quiet talks with the Obama administration. And again we’re staring down the barrel of “compromise,” which in US FedGuv speak means “the government is going to get larger pretty fast, but not quite as fast as if we let the Dems wholly have their way.”
news reports indicate that Obama aides are willing to extend the George W. Bush tax cuts for wealthy taxpayers in exchange for an extension of unemployment benefits and new forms of stimulus spending.
Way to stick up for your principles, boys.
Republicans have neither spine nor negotiating skills. If the Dems want to increase the budget by “only” ten percent this year… counter with a proposal to cut the budget by fifty percent. And then split the difference. And the difference isn’t “we decided to grow the budget by only 8% this year,” but something more like “we decided to cut the budget by only 20% this year.”
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