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Politics and chess playing, Marco. I have been reading your posts a long time. You are quite smart. Obama never really put anything on the table because there was no way that it would pass given the way he structured it.

The GOP has not agreed to raise taxes on the rich, and he knew they would balk when it came down to that.

Come on, man. Think.

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That is not how contract negotiatio­ns work anywhere in the world and that's NOT how politics in Washington works.  

You can not and DO NOT put something on the table that you're not willing to live up to.  It's the number one rule of negotiatin­g: Bargaining in good faith.  

And it still may happen.  Wall Street money is a $1 trillion deal, with among other cuts to programs vital to the poor and middle class, the COLA tied to chained CPI.

You are seriously deluding yourself if you try to make this into a 2000-D chess game with Obama as the grandest master of all time.  Deluding yourself is one thing, but trying to delude others should be criminal at this point.  Obama has led the poor and middle class down a path that's really more a cattle chute to the slaughterh­ouse pen.
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