Originally Posted By graisinbrand

Three days ago, Washington was preoccupied with the prospect of a “grand bargain” between President Obama and congressional Republicans over deficit reduction. Obama would offer $3 trillion in spending cuts – including changes in Social Security and Medicare – and in return, Republicans would provide $1 trillion in additional revenues and lift the debt ceiling. For Republicans, this was a great deal. Democrats were handing them an opportunity to defund vital parts of the welfare state, a long-time conservative goal. All the GOP had to do was take it. They refused.

John Boehner has lost control of the House GOP. All hell may break loose.

(via gbr4k)

YM is feeling optimistic today, so we’ll say this was Obama’s plan all along, to offer the Republicans a deal they shouldn’t refuse, in the hopes that they would so he could paint them as unreasonable ideologues uninterested in solving anything. Which of course is exactly what most of them are. In other news, I just put on a shirt for the first time today in order to answer the doorbell and not appear crazy.

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