Reply #37: he went back to his 4 Trillion dollar shared sacrifice idea as his 1st choice

[kenny blankenship]

As in, IT'S ALL BACK TO SQUARE ONE.

That's a bad sign. The main reason he'd want that is to move the time horizon for the next debt ceiling stick-up out to some out year. But Republicans don't want any of that and have made it clear they want to use this hostage taking gimmick as a major policy setting tool. If he's still talking about his first choice, square one, clean sheet plan of 4 trillion dollar gut punch to the middle class and the poor, that may mean there isn't any real plan being negotiated now - and maybe there never was. It could all have been a pretense to kill time until the default.