Obama wanted increased tax’s...he’s just using this committee as the stepping stone to getting those knowing from the get go they were’t positioned to do anything at all...it was just a tactic....buy some time out of the “ceiling” issue they were stuck in...but the whole idea was to stretch this out. Even Pelosi told her people right from the get go, under no circumstances were they to yeild at all on entitilements of any kind. It was dead before it got started...it was never intended to work out.
So now we hear Obama saying tax’s will go up next year BECAUSE Republicans wouldn’t yield....because Congress wouldn’t act...when in fact he staged the whole thing so he could point his finger somewhere other then himself...and it just might work.
Fine! Then the best alternative for the GOP is to call his bluff and embrace the automatic cuts which, in his heart of hearts, Obama strongly opposes. If they do that, they can cut him off at the knees while at the same time avoiding the (accurate?) public perception that they are total shills for a bloated Pentagon budget. BTW, what is YOUR alternative?