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Re: Or was it a case of not reading posts?
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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
For someone who was so jaded about seeing the debt-ceiling negotiations as akin to other negotiations, you don't seem to get why it might be counter-productive to negotiate in public.
Do you really think that if Obama had made his proposals to Boehner public, it would have made a deal more likely? Of course not. Republicans would have lined up to piss on it, and then Boehner would have had to ask for more. Leadership doesn't entail negotiating against yourself.
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You're forgetting about the budget plan he did make public (albeit not in the detail Fox wanted so they could nit-pick all the provisions in the military budget that needed restrictions on abortion added to them) back when they were debating continuing resolutions.
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