Our deeply unbalanced fiscal debate - Greg Sargent, WaPo

[Bill USA]

.. this is a great article by Greg Sargent... worth the time to read and mention.... across the web..

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2013/03/01/our-deeply-unbalanced-fiscal-debate/

[font size="3"]The GOP position is explicitly that there is nothing Democrats can offer that will get them to agree to new revenues. Nothing.

.....Therefore, any offer from Dems — no matter how much in serious spending cuts it contains — is automatically a nonstarter for Republicans if it closes any tax loopholes to generate new revenue.

There is no scenario under which Republicans can be induced to compromise — if we take Republicans themselves at their word.

The only option for avoiding the sequester is for Democrats to propose only cuts to replace it — cuts that Republicans themselves won’t even propose.

No “leadership” can avert the sequester. Only giving Republicans 100% of what they want can.[/font]

[Recoverin_Republican]

1. excellent! GOPers like to keep sayin' Obama needs to show "leadership". How do you lead when

one party is an insurgency?

Let's Just Say it: The Republicans are the Problem
http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2012-04-27/opinions/35453898_1_republican-party-party-moves-democratic-party

The GOP has become an insurgent outlier in American politics. It is ideologically extreme; scornful of compromise; unmoved by conventional understanding of facts, evidence and science; and dismissive of the legitimacy of its political opposition.

When one party moves this far from the mainstream, it makes it nearly impossible for the political system to deal constructively with the country’s challenges.
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