Republicans Are Blowing Up Negotiations Because Boehner Is Weak & Republicans Are Crazy [View all]

[TomCADem]

...amd folks are coming out of the wood work saying that President Obama caved?

The revenue numbers on the table are about what everyone thought would be in the range of a deal. The taxes to spending cuts are about 1 to 1, which many folks who consider "balanced."

Yet, despite the fact that it cuts spending and make serious in-roads on cutting the defict, Boehner is grand standing and trying to pass a bill that Democrats have uniformly rejected out of hand?

Why? Because Boehner learned Tuesday night that he does not have the votes for any deal that Democrats could concievably accept. Thus, the whole purpose of Plan B is for Republicans to pass the most reasonable sounding bill that they can stomach, which they know Democrats will not accept, so that they can try to get the corporate media to support them in blaming Democrats.

My question is why do so many liberals fall for it? If President Obama did not make any movement at all on spending, the public would blame him and Democrats for not being serious about addressing the deficit, which would strengthen the hand of Republicans when it came to the debt limit crisis that they will cook up in a month or so.

Seriously, the same folks who point to the 2011 debt limit talks forget that Boehner and Republicans walked away from a possible deal that would even make Boehner's Plan B look great. Now, President Obama's rumored proposal is still far better than anything that was put on the table in 2011.

My read is that President Obama does seriously want to address the deficit and he is willing to compromise to get to deal. Yet, the truth that we repeatedly ignore is that Republicans are way to extreme to make any plausible deal. I personally think that President Obama knows that Boehner can't close a deal now. Boehner knows it too. Boehner went through a month of negotiations that he knew he did not have the authority to close a deal on. Now, with President Obama making some concessions, Boehner is trying to find a graceful way to blow up any deal.

Republicans do not want a deal! While on the liberal side, you have some folks who happily say lets go over the cliff, on the Republican side, these folks are in the majority because they really do not care about creating another recession of risking a credit default.