{"id":12871,"date":"2012-03-19T18:08:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-19T22:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=12871"},"modified":"2012-03-19T18:08:00","modified_gmt":"2012-03-19T22:08:00","slug":"the-question-here-is-why-the-truth-is-coming-out-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=12871","title":{"rendered":"The Question Here Is Why The Truth Is Coming Out Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mickey Kaus at the <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2012\/03\/19\/wapo-on-grand-bargain-obama-blew-it\/\">Daily Caller<\/a>\u00a0posted a story about a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/obamas-evolution-behind-the-failed-grand-bargain-on-the-debt\/2012\/03\/15\/gIQAHyyfJS_story.html\">Washington Post<\/a> story detailing what happened during the negotiations on the deficit last summer. As you probably remember, the media story was that the Republicans were intransigent and the Democrats couldn&#8217;t do anything about it. Well, it seems as if what we were told was not actually true.<\/p>\n<p>The article at the Daily Caller summarizes the information in the Washington Post:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>According to the <em>Post<\/em>, \u00a0the two sides (Obama and Boehner) were close to a deal. Then Obama foolishly trumpeted a \u201cGang of Six\u201d proposal that had a much higher tax number, which had the effect of making the deal look small. ** He then demanded a 50% increase ($400 billion) in new revenues. When the talks then blew up, he tried to get his old deal back, but it was too late.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I believe the Republicans stated this at the time, but I seriously doubt anyone heard them above the roar of the media template.<\/p>\n<p>Please follow the link to the Daily Caller to read the entire article. It is a great read. It makes very clear that President Obama&#8217;s inexperience as a negotiator was responsible for the difficulty in coming together. The article also reminds us that part of the Democrat plan was to raise the age of eligibility for Medicare. I think it&#8217;s time to remind the baby boomers of that before they vote in November.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"float: right; border-style: none;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=da8c681f-5886-42f6-8a1f-772901f9f62e\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mickey Kaus at the Daily Caller\u00a0posted a story about a Washington Post story detailing what happened during the negotiations on the deficit last summer. As you probably remember, the media story was that the Republicans were intransigent and the Democrats &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=12871\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[117,2462,174,2461,562,164,1134],"class_list":["post-12871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-barackobama","tag-budget-deficit-deal","tag-daily-caller","tag-mickey-kaus","tag-obama","tag-republican","tag-washington-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12871"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12872,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12871\/revisions\/12872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}