Let Me Start: A Grand Bargain?

President Obama is still looking for a grand bargain with Republicans. He’s presenting a budget plan that includes cuts to … Read More

President Obama is still looking for a grand bargain with Republicans. He’s presenting a budget plan that includes cuts to Social Security and Medicare — essentially the same plan he offered House Speaker John Boehner at the end of last year — in an attempt to show Republicans he’s willing to compromise. Of course, that’s not winning him any points with progressives. But it’s a strategic move by the president: He is hoping that constituents will complain to their members of Congress about the sequester cuts to the military and domestic programs, and that these new proposed cuts would eliminate the need for the sequester cuts. The White House is banking on voters blaming Republicans for the fiscal standoff that may ensue. And that may be an overly complicated bank shot for President Obama to pull off.

Unemployment dropped to 7.6% and the economy added jobs for the 30th straight month, although last month’s 88,000 new jobs aren’t enough to put a big dent in the jobless rate. Perhaps those sequester cuts weren’t such a good move…

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