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if you are not willing to compromise on taxes, then you are not compromising on anything if you are a republican....the administration has put everything on the table, has been willing to do a deal that is DOUBLE, 4 trill, that the repubs want no part of....sad to see the talks going in this direction, but good on obama for growing a set and telling the repubs to piss off."Raising taxes in a recession is the last thing you want to do." - President Barack Obama
we are willing to compromise on plenty. whatever the President wants to cut, we'll cut. but raising taxes will not bring in any revenue, it will hurt the country's struggling economy, and it's not a political possibility. we might as well demand that Obama pass the Ryan Plan, and then accuse him of refusing to compromise when he doesn't.
At best, Obama wants to hike taxes, but doesn't want the blame for it, so he wants to make Republicans his enablers. At worst, Obama knows that this won't pass the House, and so he wants to go past the Aug 2 deadline to see how much he can scare the American public about the "eeeeevil Wepubwicans" [/Elmer Fudd Voice].