President Obama's Brilliant Strategy: Winner Takes All

I cannot believe that Lawrence O'Donnell was right. He said that Obama was giving the Republicans enough rope to hang themselves. Not just in this battle, the debt ceiling battle, but until the Tea Party was effectively dead.

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And that is exactly what happened. There is no recovery from this. No recovery. All they had to do was to agree to do what eighty percent of the American people wanted them to: help the very wealthy share our sacrifice through fair and reasonable tax / revenue increases.  And they would not. They would not. They would take food out of babies mouths so the CEOs could enjoy a tax break on private jets. They would condemn eighty-year old Americans on fixed incomes to try and survive 100 degree summer with no air conditioning so that CEOs could take home a million more dollars on a ten million dollar income. They would rather schools close, bridges collapse, roads fall, the elderly starve, the disabled be institutionalized, high school students never be able to go to college, women get no reproductive health care, the air and water polluted beyond recovery, our food poisoned, and you and I to never be able to bargain for better pay and better working conditions than agree that one wealthy American pay one single penny more in taxes.

Now, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and Mitch McConnell can rationally discuss the debt ceiling increase and come to an agreement.

President Obama on the break-down in debt ceiling deal