Republicans can’t look like caving preemptively or precipitously, because that would infuriate their base, which is very bigoted, intransigent and fanatic.
House Speaker John Boehner does not seem like the guy that enjoys cracking the whip on his House Republicans. He seems unable to man up and be the boss - the way Pelosi 'manned up' when she ran the place."
Obama is correcting his negotiation mistakes. Boehner should be able to recognize what Obama's learned from him.
Boehner has to get over it. Obama learned from him in year 2011 ....
Republican members are exposed to vicious primary challenges from the Tea Party. But driving the Republicans farther right drives them away from the political center and strengthens the popularity of the Democrats and likelihood that they will score more victories in 2014.
The alternative scenario is to rouse the Tea Party to mount a campaign to preserve the privilege of the 2%. And Democrats would enjoy that. The House Republicans intransigence is the Democratic Party's strength.
Republicans need something to move on rates for the Richest 2%, so they have to say what it is. Obama won’t and shouldn't negotiate with himself like a fool. Rates are going up one way or the other, so Republicans should do this the easy way and get some deal for them even if it is not why they want, and is very far from their impossible and frustrated dreams that they had before the presidential election, dreams that were shattered and destroyed in November 6.
Republicans should not forget that they are the losers of the 2012 democratic electoral contest and that the American People did NOT like or approve their mad economic proposals of Social Darwinism and Plutocracy.
POLITICO.COM
Fiscal cliff: What Boehner, Obama are thinking
By MIKE ALLEN and JIM VANDEHEI
December 7, 2012
Fiscal cliff: What Boehner, Obama are thinking
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