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In reply to the discussion: Tired of Malignant Amnesia Anti-Obama Syndrome [View all]Cha
(296,848 posts)"In reality, the fundamentals of the situation have not changed at all. Last year, Obama was willing to adopt C-CPI in return for concessions Republicans would never, ever make. This year, Obama is still willing to adopt C-CPI in return for concessions Republicans would never, ever make. Putting the compromise in his budget was merely Obamas way of locating the blame for the reality that Republicans in Congress will never, ever, ever strike a fiscal deal with him. The disappointed deficit scolds sitting just to Obamas right, and the joyous progressives just to his left, are committing the same fallacy. They are mistaking a step premised on an impossibility for a semblance of reality."
http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2014/02/chained-cpi-was-never-going-happen-and-now-its-still-never-going-happen