Reply #154: No. It's called lousy negotiation techniques.

[JDPriestly]

If you were bitten by a dog, and your lawyer offered to pay the dog owner's vet bills without getting anything for you, you would find a new lawyer.

The GOP fought vanity wars and gave tax cuts to its donor base thereby running up debts. Obama has proposed to pay the debts the GOP ran up at the expense of the poorest and most vulnerable in the country without getting any proposals from the GOP on ending their tax cuts and vanity wars.

If Obama can't do negotiate better than that, we need to find a new, more progressive president who will fight for us and demand a good proposal from the GOP before offering to pay their bills out of our pockets.