In Deficit Plan, Obama Drops Compromise for Confrontation.

[elleng]

The details of President Obama’s plan to reduce federal deficits by more than $3 trillion over 10 years, which he laid out Monday morning, underscore a strategic White House shift away from the pursuit of compromise toward a more partisan confrontation. . .

The new hard line reflects a change in the administration’s negotiating strategy after the president’s failure to close a grand bargain on deficit reduction with Mr. Boehner earlier this year, a series of talks that left some Democrats in the administration and in Congress with the view that Mr. Obama had made significant concessions only to get the cold shoulder from Republicans reluctant to see the president score a victory.

This time, rather than trying to identify common ground, the administration is entering the negotiations in the same kind of tough position that Republicans adopted during the debt-ceiling debate, emphasizing the traditional financial priorities of the Democratic Party.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/20/us/politics/in-deficit-plan-obama-drops-compromise-for-confrontation.html?_r=1&hp

[opihimoimoi]

1. Improvement

ya can't comp with Bullies...who are hubristic of the false kine

[orpupilofnature57]

2. Bout time ,good to see him single out Boner ! And finally Troops withdrawal!

Since the dawn of man sh-t runs downhill ,but a nice revenue we haven't had in 10 yrs ,Rich peoples money ,wee !!!

[WCGreen]

3. I am glad that he tried....

It will show the rational people in this country who are on the fence that he acted in a sober and realistic manner until forced to take a more punitive form of politicking.

[demosincebirth]

4. sorry, but rational peope are not sitting on the fence in this debate.

[WCGreen]

6. I think they are...

The people who aren't consumed with politics like you and I...

The people who get their news in 5 minute on the radio or on the front page of MSN or Yahoo or whatever gateway they have to the internet.

We are in the minority, those of use who live and die on every little thing that goes on politically in this country of ours.

They will see this as president Obama as trying hard to get an agreement and finally decided that enough is enough...

[bemildred]

5. Yay, here comes the clue train.

Took long enough.