{"id":3495,"date":"2010-11-30T03:00:59","date_gmt":"2010-11-30T11:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=3495"},"modified":"2010-11-30T03:00:59","modified_gmt":"2010-11-30T11:00:59","slug":"obama-demonstrates-how-not-to-negotiate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/11\/30\/obama-demonstrates-how-not-to-negotiate\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Demonstrates How NOT to Negotiate"},"content":{"rendered":"

I support him when he\u2019s right, but Obama has blown it again.  The second I first saw his announcement on the federal pay freeze, I thought, \u201cI hope he traded it for something good, but as I researched the matter I found what he actually got for for this concession: not a damn thing! Now, I\u2019m no politician, but I have been married, so even I know to start negotiation at \u2018only in my wildest dreams\u2019 and trade off from there.  Although Obama promised to govern from the center, that should make the center the end point, not the starting point, and when he makes this mistake, as he has repeatedly, the Republican just want more.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"30Obama\"President Obama’s proposal on Monday to freeze federal workers’ pay was an unexpected announcement that represented the first in a series of White House moves to seize the initiative from Republicans on the economy.<\/p>\n

The preemptive move was timed to precede a White House meeting Tuesday with congressional leaders on the subject of expiring George W. Bush-era tax cuts, and came just days before a final report from Obama’s fiscal commission on how to shrink the federal deficit.<\/p>\n

"The hard truth is that getting this deficit under control is going to require broad sacrifice," Obama said from the White House. "And that sacrifice must be shared by the employees of the federal government."<\/p>\n

By proposing the two-year freeze, Obama sought to stake his own claim to the argument that government must make tough decisions. A senior administration official said Obama’s proposal was part of a larger plan to put Republicans on the defensive on an overdue conversation about deficits.<\/p>\n

The move would save about $5 billion over two years, the White House said \u2014 a substantial sum, though a mere sliver of the $1.3-trillion federal deficit\u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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The author of this article has it wrong.  That may be Obama\u2019s intent, bit it won\u2019t have the desired effect.  It never has.  Two years of this strategy got us a Republican House!<\/font><\/p>\n

Predictably the response of John Boehner, aka Agent Orange, was that it’s not enough<\/a>.<\/font><\/p>\n

Rachel Maddow illustrates the issue in a way that only she can:<\/font><\/p>\n

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Visit msnbc.com for breaking news<\/a>, world news<\/a>, and news about the economy<\/a><\/p>\n

If Obama continues in this manner, I will have to consider supporting a primary challenger in 2012.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I support him when he\u2019s right, but Obama has blown it again.  The second I first saw his announcement on the federal pay freeze, I thought, \u201cI hope he traded it for something good, but as I researched the matter I found what he actually got for for this concession: not a damn thing! Now, […]<\/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-3495","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\/3495","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=3495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}