{"id":11379,"date":"2013-10-14T00:23:07","date_gmt":"2013-10-14T07:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=11379"},"modified":"2013-10-14T00:23:07","modified_gmt":"2013-10-14T07:23:07","slug":"obama-still-knows-how-to-bluff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2013\/10\/14\/obama-still-knows-how-to-bluff\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama STILL Knows How to Bluff"},"content":{"rendered":"

The boo birds are at it again, saying that, since  Barack Obama says he will talk about anything with Republicans, after the Republican shutdown and threatened Republican default are resolved.  He must be about to cede major concessions, selling out Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid recipients.  There is more than one way that Obama has disappointed me, but after he realized what a big mistake he made in 2011, he has been a rock on the big three.  Obama knows how to offer Republicans what they want, and make them slither away from the table at the same time.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"Obama-playing-poker\"Be skeptical. Be very, very skeptical. <\/p>\n

That was the reaction from nearly all corners to the talk of convening yet another round of bipartisan negotiations to reduce the nation\u2019s long-term debt. The idea has resurfaced as a way of resolving the standoff between President Obama and the Republican-controlled House over reopening the government and increasing its legal borrowing limit, perhaps for months or even just weeks. <\/p>\n

But even if the current talks soon resolve the immediate impasse, which did not look likely on Saturday, any renewal of negotiations for a long-term fiscal plan will run into the same underlying problem that has doomed efforts for the past three years. <\/p>\n

Republicans refuse to raise additional tax revenue<\/strong>, and until they do, Mr. Obama will not support even his own tentative proposals for reducing spending on fast-growing social benefit programs, chiefly Medicare. During a White House meeting with Senate Republicans on Friday, he reiterated that the two go hand in hand, according to people who were there\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Obama knows that everything Republicans do relates to one of their two ultimate goals.  One is the establishment of a permanent, totalitarian Republican Reich in which elections exist for show, only.  Second is the transfer of wealth from the poor and middle classes to the very rich.  Every time Obama links cutting welfare for the rich with cutting benefits, Republicans slither away, reminding America yet again just whom it is that Republicans truly represent.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The boo birds are at it again, saying that, since  Barack Obama says he will talk about anything with Republicans, after the Republican shutdown and threatened Republican default are resolved.  He must be about to cede major concessions, selling out Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid recipients.  There is more than one way that Obama has […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}