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In reply to the discussion: The offer of the Chained CPI is a 'Brilliant Strategy'! Could someone explain this please? [View all]stupidicus
(2,570 posts)I've made the same case more times that I'd care to go back and count in response to the kind of stuff you're addressing here, going all the way back to months before the election when the debate was over if he would or wouldn't put it on the table -- and we know how that turned out.
I suspect it's the same suspects that were trying to silence those like me that got it right, that are now pushing the "brilliant!" "Nth dimensional chess" BS.
All I can or will say at this point, is that as a long time chess player, if this is the best game BHO has, I'd stomp him blindfolded on the chess board, and here's why.
It's pretty much common knowledge now what the net impact of all the dem base disappointments and disenchantment resulted in in 2010, which this http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/15/AR2009011504114.html played a role in -- repubs getting the redistricting power that left the house in their incapable/rightwingnut hands. Why he'd wanna inject such discord of this kind into political landscape and the equations of the voters one can only speculate about, but one things for sure -- it's not a sacrificial continuation of any discernible kind that would lead to a greater gain in the forseeable future. That's the only reason to offer a sacrifice - because the opponent accepting it leads inexorably to a greater loss for them.
WHere is the loss for them that he can't compel by other means minus this sacrifice is what I'd like to know.
This is why I'm convinced it is simply a move he wanted to make for the interests other than those of who elected him.