How About A Veto Promise Now?
Rather than rehash why I think "The Deal," which appears to be doing for President Obama's popularity what "The Decision" did for LeBron James' popularity, is a terrible mistake (looking through the writings in the blogs on it, my thoughts are in mostly in line with David Dayen's, the President is trading government spending stimulus for tax cut stimulus in the short term (watch the GOP slash spending in the next budget) AND destroying the long term outlook for funding critical government programs such as Medicaid at the same time), I'm going to offer my view of what the President might do to limit the damage of this terrible decision. Greg Sargent gets at a major problem for Obama:
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