McConnell, we've got the sound bite, ready now to talk about revenues as long as there's talk of spending cuts, but you and I know that there won't be any of those because Obama doesn't have to cut any spending.
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It is like a death watch. We are all standing around waiting for the GOP to croak itself by agreeing to tax rate increases. This is something that the Democrats wouldn't do themselves when they had the power, now the Republicans have convinced themselves that they have to do it or get blamed for going over the fiscal cliff.
Go over the damned cliff and don't increase the debt. What have you to lose? You are going to lose anyway because of "demographics". If not that, then pissing off the very people who support you. This is a no win situation. When there's a no win situation, just fall back on doing the right thing.
That's probably asking too much.
Update:
I recall something that I read once which discussed power. It was in the book You Can Negotiate Anything, by Herb Cohen. He mentioned the role of power in negotiations. What he said about power stuck in my mind. It went something like this: Power is the ability to get things done... If you think you have it, you have it---even if you don't. If you think you don't have it, you don't have it--- even if you do. The thing to do is to assume that you have the power you need and act as if you do and believe that you do.
The problem here is that the Republicans act as if they don't have any power and so they don't.
The Constitution gives the power of the purse to the House of Representatives. If the GOP won't use that power which they do have, they lose all credibility. So, even though they have the power, they don't.
The Democrats, on the other hand, have no power of the purse. But they act as if they do. They will be successful, unless something changes.
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