Budget Committee Explains Its Failure to Agree
The Supercommittee explains its failure to reach an agreement on budget cuts and tax increases:
Both sides used remarkably similar language to describe their frustrations. A Democrat involved in the negotiations said: “We made a reasonable offer and got nothing in return. We got naked in the room. Republicans are standing there in overcoats, hats and gloves and are toasty warm.”
A Republican aide, who believed Mr. Toomey made a good-faith proposal and got nothing from Democrats in return, said a few days later: “We showed some leg. The Democrats want us to get completely naked.”
Maybe they should have met at the shvitz.
(Photo: Mark Kauffman,Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images, Apr 01, 1948)
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