This “Compromise” had been talked about for weeks before being implemented. Obama was just along for the ride. Giving credit to Obama is the way the Inside The Beltway crowd is framing the discussion.
Not only the beltway croud, but thr world press has given the credit to Obama for the tax deal
“This “Compromise” had been talked about for weeks before being implemented. Obama was just along for the ride. Giving credit to Obama is the way the Inside The Beltway crowd is framing the discussion.”
—Yep. Obama was not the “savvy chess player” five steps ahead of everybody here- the tax compromise, especially the payroll cut, had Austun Goolsbee’s fingerprints all over it...
POTUS was likely out playing hoops while Goolsbee and others came up with it. Not that the idea was great shakes, but if his original economic team was working on it, it would have been predictably even worse Marxist garbage.