“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall catch hell from both sides.”
So said a sign on the Justice Department wall of Burke Marshall at the height of the civil rights era. But it could also apply to President Obama’s new budget, finally offered up two months late and on the heels of competing Democratic Senate and House Republican proposals.
i look at it like this neither side gets all they want including Beohners exageration of his getting 98% of what he wanted twice?
bottom line Pres. can only do what we enable him to do and the obstruction by the republicans severly limits that, unless we dowhat we can, call email, march you know what's available to you.
But this budget is not like all the others. It is not a positional bargaining document, designed simply to rally the base at the outset of negotiations. One way you can tell is that liberal activists and congressmen are already screaming “sellout” at the White House for offering Social Security reform as part of a balanced plan to reduce the deficit and debt.
The Republican response so far has been crickets, and that throat clearing you hear in the distance might just be a recalibration before another reflexive “tax and spend liberal” attack on the president.
Pres. has never deliberately done something that was not in "we the peoples" interest are we getting squeamish again are we letting republicans punk us? sequester doesn't count he really thought they would not allow this to happen only guilty of thinking the republicans are humane.
