The election is over. Obama won. No need to be nice anymore. Time to push back against fiscal insanity and propaganda.
Yves Smith has a good piece up over at Naked Capitalism - Obama calls on Citizens to Ask Congress to Slit Their Throats.
In fact, NOT getting a deal done is far better for everyone except the uber rich. As Paul Krugman has stressed, going into 2013 with no deal in place is not a dramatic event, and would substantially weaken the Republican’s bargaining position as far as preserving tax breaks for the wealthy are concerned. And if the Administration wanted to preserve middle cut tax relief, like lower payroll taxes, it can make that retroactive to the start of 2013.
...the options that Obama is allowing to be considered range from utterly dreadful to merely awful.More below ....