The Republicans are not going to portray the tax increase as a compromise, but as a "far left" plan. The will only agree to a plan if .....
It is stupid not only as an economic strategy, but as a strategy for negotiating. I knew that the Obama group was not very courageous, but I expected competence. On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 12:04:08PM -0500, Doug Henwood wrote: > > No, not blah, blah. Most of the time I'd agree with what Lou said. I'm not > surprised at all by BHO's foreign policy appointments. When it comes to > imperialism, the Dems can be just as hard a cop as the Reps, actually. But > I don't get the stimulus politics. He could hang tough and even peel away a > couple of Rep votes in the Senate (the Maine duo and/or Specter). The > compromise makes no political or economic sense to me. > -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu michaelperelman.wordpress.com _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list pen-l@lists.csuchico.edu https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
