More is not enough, Obama makes new demands

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM)
11/30/2012
Catholic Online (www.catholic.org)

Earlier tenuous deal may be scrapped as economy held hostage.

Democrats have sensed weakness in the GOP and now they're poised to strike. As Republicans demonstrate their willingness to give in on taxes to avoid another fiscal crisis, Obama and the Democrats have asked for further concessions.

Democrats don't seem to mind peering down the fiscal cliff as much as Republicans do.

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WASHINGTON, DC (Catholic Online) - Republicans allege that Obama and the Democrats are holding the economy, and Americans, hostage as they change the terms of their already tenuous deal with Republicans. While Republicans have signaled their willingness to raise taxes on the wealthy, a major concession, the Democrats now want more.

Democrats have now asked for a permanent raising of the debt ceiling limit, new stimulus, new spending, and putting off discussion about entitlement reform.

Just yesterday, it appeared probable that President Obama and GOP leader John Boehner (R-OH) were ready to make a deal. Tantalizing details were leaked to the media that, for the most part, appeared sensible. Then, Democrats sensing the Republicans were willing to negotiate, struck again, upping the ante.

And why not? Democrats have much less to lose than Republicans. Recent polls show that if the fiscal cliff is reached, triggering automatic tax increases for all Americans, that most Americans would lay the blame on Republicans.

This leaves Boehner and other Republicans in a difficult situation. Should the GOP concede to Democrats the majority of their demands, which would represent a genuine failure of leadership, or should they allow the country to careen off the fiscal cliff, which would be seen as a failure of leadership?

And while Republicans try to please Obama, the president is out on the campaign trail, asking people to "pay a little more."

The recent setback suggests that Democrats aren't serious about spending cuts and changing the way Washington does business, while at the same time the Republicans have been jolted back into reality.

Most Americans, and even most Republicans rightly expected Obama and the Democrats to negotiate a solution in good faith, however that appears to be a na�ve assessment as yesterday's tenuous deal begins to unravel under the weight of new Democratic demands.

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Keywords: Economy, Obama, republicans, debt deal

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John Mainhart
5 months ago
This is the way I see it. The Republicans have been unwilling to do anything for their fear that the populace will ,disapprove of them. I am 80 tears old and I know that ir you negotiate with fear you lose. I would suggest that the Republicans decide on the values they wish to adopt to turn this country around and form their fiscal program around those values. They might lose under those comditions but ,at least they would lose with character rather than because they fear the consequences. Actually I believe that is the definition of statesmanship.
"G.G" a PatrioticAmerican
5 months ago
Well said Mike Robertson...I do believe John Boehner has weakened and has all the "sheep"
starting to follow him...And, to think I believed him....Are there any honest politicians in
our country that truly want to be of service to the American people? Tell me! Who are they?
Where are they?
mike robertson
5 months ago
I believe it is naive to assume the Catholic democrats' candidate is negotiating in good faith. Why would one be surprised at this? What should we expect from one who calls a child in the womb a "problem". He favors legal killing of boys and girls outside the womb after they survived an attempt to kill them in their mom's womb.I can remember when a child in the womb was called a "blessed event" and we said the mother was "with child" (I suppose Jesus was a "problem" in the womb of the Blessed Mother?). The Catholic democrats' candidate in the White House could never be elected in such a world where innocent human life was more respected than now. The Catholic democrats' candidate refused to thank God on Thanksgiving. Do Catholic democrats think we should thank them or their candidate? I will not. I will continue to thank God on Thanksgiving and every other day. The Catholic democrats' candidate is waging an immoral and unprovoked war against God's Church for our crime, as he would call it, of adhering to God and His laws. And the Catholic democrats' candidate in the White House thinks he, not God, knows what constitutes Holy Matrimony. Is it a surprise that the Catholic democrats' candidate is for going over a cliff which will put even more people in economic misery and dependent on taxpayer's money? And this pushes us even further towards a Greek-like collapse. Why would one think the Catholic democrats' candidate would like a more prosperous society where more of us were working and giving to churches and private charities? It would make it harder for him to convince even Catholic democrats that it is a good thing to become a Third World economic basket case.

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