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Topic: The President's Cliff Walk |
The President's Cliff Walk
Wall Street Journal, by Editorial
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Posted By:earlybird, 11/8/2012 9:14:59 AM
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| So much for the post-election honeymoon. The financial markets took a header Wednesday on (take your pick) the return of European troubles, the risk of a Beltway breakdown over the looming tax cliff, or the greater prospect of a major tax increase arriving in 2013. (Snip) Specifically, is he going to consider his re-election to be a mandate to repeat his first-term record of rejecting all GOP ideas and insisting on his priorities? Or is he going to show some magnanimity in victory and give Republican Speaker John Boehner something he can sell to his own re-elected majority?
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Comments:
One indicator will be his appointment to succeed Geithner. If it is Jack Lew, it means he intends to keep on fighting.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
M Stuart, 11/8/2012 9:58:14 AM (No. 8999202)
How can we thank John Boehner and then replace him with a better communicator and throw 0bama off his game? 0bama has his narrative against Boehner, and the LSM supports it. How about a game changer?
I'd like to see Trump. It would be fun, a lot more fun than watching the House of Reps unilaterally disarm.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
lilo, 11/8/2012 10:13:30 AM (No. 8999267)
The Republicans in the house should vote present on every vote. Obama inherited his own mess. He and the Dems with major assistance from the press own it. Republicans are going to be called obstructionistts at the very least, vilified as usual. Why cooperate with someone who is trying to destroy you?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Grambo, 11/8/2012 10:23:19 AM (No. 8999312)
It is not in Obama's genes to compromise and be moderate. If the country goes off the fiscal cliff, it won't hurt Obama's feelings. On the contrary, it will fit Obama's agenda of realigning America's status vis-a-vis the global community.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
reilly, 11/8/2012 10:24:39 AM (No. 8999317)
Let them raise taxes! Raise spending! Be Democrats! The cigars explode in their faces, not ours.
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