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GOP 'Doomsday' Plan
By DICK MORRIS
Published on TheHill.com on December 4, 2012
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ABC News reports that House Republicans have a doomsday plan in mind should the fiscal-cliff talks fail to reach an agreement: total surrender!
The concept is for the House to give Obama the middle-class tax-cut extension he is seeking without any extension of the upper-income cuts and to give him "nothing else." That is to say, according to ABC, "no extension of the debt ceiling, nothing on unemployment, nothing on closing loopholes. Congress would recess for the holidays and the president would face a big battle early in the year over the debt ceiling."
The network reports that "two senior Republican elected officials say this doomsday plan 'is becoming the most likely scenario.' " In a variation on the Mel Brooks comedy "Blazing Saddles," where the sheriff puts a gun to his own head and warns that if anyone moves he'll shoot the sheriff, the Republicans are, in effect, saying that if Obama doesn't give in, he'll get his way. Brilliant strategy. It's for great thinking like that that we elected a Republican House to serve as a check on the president.
The Republican Party appears willing to surrender its only leverage in return for nothing -- zip, zero, nada, zilch -- in the way of spending cuts. Some might say that the debt limit would give Republicans leverage, but we have been down that game of chicken before and we know that Boehner won't pull the trigger.
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There's a difference between good bargaining and surrender, and Republicans in the House need to learn the difference.
read more at: www.dickmorris.com
By DICK MORRIS
Published on TheHill.com on December 4, 2012
Printer-Friendly Version
ABC News reports that House Republicans have a doomsday plan in mind should the fiscal-cliff talks fail to reach an agreement: total surrender!
The concept is for the House to give Obama the middle-class tax-cut extension he is seeking without any extension of the upper-income cuts and to give him "nothing else." That is to say, according to ABC, "no extension of the debt ceiling, nothing on unemployment, nothing on closing loopholes. Congress would recess for the holidays and the president would face a big battle early in the year over the debt ceiling."
The network reports that "two senior Republican elected officials say this doomsday plan 'is becoming the most likely scenario.' " In a variation on the Mel Brooks comedy "Blazing Saddles," where the sheriff puts a gun to his own head and warns that if anyone moves he'll shoot the sheriff, the Republicans are, in effect, saying that if Obama doesn't give in, he'll get his way. Brilliant strategy. It's for great thinking like that that we elected a Republican House to serve as a check on the president.
The Republican Party appears willing to surrender its only leverage in return for nothing -- zip, zero, nada, zilch -- in the way of spending cuts. Some might say that the debt limit would give Republicans leverage, but we have been down that game of chicken before and we know that Boehner won't pull the trigger.
(more on webpage here)
There's a difference between good bargaining and surrender, and Republicans in the House need to learn the difference.
read more at: www.dickmorris.com