United We Stand, Divided We Fall

Harry, you are whistling in the dark.  President Obama blew it when he ignored the Republicans in the fiscal cliff negotiations when the Republicans were prepared to compromise and did.  The President reneged on his end of the bargain.  Now that President Obama is back at the table, it appears the Republicans are blowing it themselves by passing a budget that rips Obamacare from the budget.  That will never pass in the Senate.  Even if it did, the President would veto it.  Such utter nonsense.

When are we going to get two Republicans and two Democrats (1 each from the House and Senate) and Jacob Lew to sit down and put a grand bargain together with an up or down vote in each house?  They could use the revised Simpson Bowles proposal or the United We Stand proposal as the starting point.  As Governor Christie indicated, don’t let them out of the room until they have agreed on a plan.

Sam Allen