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In reply to the discussion: ok, no more crap about "obama caving". it's called a trial balloon. COMPLAIN TO CONGRESS. [View all]democrattotheend
(11,605 posts)A lot of people will be hurt if we go over it. And Krugman is now saying that the president's proposal is not great but not as terrible as the one Ezra Klein mentioned last week and that there are some important trade-offs. For example, the infrastructure spending and unemployment extensions are things the president could probably not get by going over.
It's also possible that this was leaked to show that the president is being reasonable and trying to meet them part way, because he knows the House GOP won't take this deal. I don't think that's likely - I think he wants a deal - but I think it's odd that the White House put this out there otherwise instead of forcing Boehner to propose it (which he did, but it doesn't look that way to most people). The only reason I can see for leaking it is to make the GOP look unreasonable.