White House official says actual details of the deal are better than what's being reported.

[boxman15]

What do you think this means? Is it something significant or is it just political posturing?

[alsame]

1. Better for who? nt

[Tansy_Gold]

2. Better? For whom? n/t

[peacebird]

3. my hopeful side says - "Yay!", the rest of me thinks it's a ploy to keep us quiet until the evil

deed is done....

[Duer 157099]

4. Considering how they define "better" we should be concerned n/t

[AtomicKitten]

5. It probably means don't believe everything that surfaces on the internetz. nt

[Maccagirl]

6. Without details, sounds like posturing to me.

or the MSM wants the anti-Obama meme to take over the newscycle.

[polmaven]

18. When has DU

ever waited for details?

[DrToast]

7. When are they going to release these better details?

When they ram it through and it's too late?

[sad sally]

12. It's the way the Congress and White House govern.

Scare the shit out of people (terrorist warnings don't work anymore);

take the financial emergency of the day (TARP, government shut-down, unemployment benefit extensions tied to tax cuts) to the edge of the cliff;

come up with a plan with no time to explain what it actually means;

later, explain it absolutely had to be done this way or else the world would have come to an end;

pat themselves on the back for being the saviors and go on a 5-week vacation courtesy of you guessed it - taxpayers.

[NorthCarolina]

17. Is this the transparency in Government we were promised during the campaign? nt

[pleah]

8. I just want to know how bad we are going to get screwed. :(

[DesertFlower]

9. i think we can be sure they'll be

no tax increases. the rest, i have no idea.

[DCBob]

10. Reid just said he supports the "deal" pending caucus approval.

and there are some conservatives now saying they wont support it.

[Igel]

15. "Pending caucus approval."

Why doesn't he just outsource his brainstem, as well? Must be lonely, his cerebrum parcelled out to 50+ other people like that.

[vroomvroom]

11. Conditioned Stimuli tells me this is going to Hurt...AGAIN!

Seriously, when the white house says something like this when has it ever been good for us. It is usually a good deal for the other side.

[CakeGrrl]

13. It means Boehner's going to have a HELL of a time bringing Teabaggers on board. -nt

[jwirr]

14. Okay, the booosh tax cut is going to expire anyhow so it is not that.

They are going to leave Social Security alone so it is not that. That leaves the huge amount of cuts in the next ten years. More military than social programs? Who knows.

[MissDeeds]

16. "What do you think this means?"

I think it means the deal is being spun as a good thing. I'm going to wait and see what the full details are, but I'm very, very dubious this will be a good thing for the majority of Americans.

[Autumn]

19. From his speech it's a lot better for the pukes.

sucks to be us but What The Fuck.

[hijinx87]

20. if the details were that great, they would be out.

or, at very least, they would be giving them to us, not telling us that these mysterious details are better than whatever it is that we are hearing.

I'm always alarmed when I am told to not worry, and that it's not that bad. it's usually exactly that bad.

[ibegurpard]

21. of course they are

edit: of course they would say that

[blkmusclmachine]

22. It's B.S. Per usual out of the WH.

n/t

[ZombieHorde]

23. I hope that's true. Recommended. nt