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In reply to the discussion: Tired of Malignant Amnesia Anti-Obama Syndrome [View all]Unknown Beatle
(2,672 posts)in Medicare and Social Security benefits, or for a Republican speaker to contemplate raising taxes, if they can ultimately claim that theyve joined together to make the hard decisions necessary for the country; its quite another thing to shatter the trust of your most ideological allies and come away with nothing to show for it. Obama and Boehner have clung to their separate realities not just because its useful to blame each other for the political dysfunction in Washington, but because neither wants to talk about just how far he was willing to go.
From the link I provided above.
No, the table is not some magical thing, but Obama's intention was to cut social services if met halfway and for you to say he was not going to do it, see the TPP and TTIP.