President Acts Like He Won, But He Lost

Ezra Klein, Washington Post
(Susan Walsh - AP) The substance of this deal is bad. But the way Democrats are selling it makes it much, much worse.The final compromise was $38.5 billion below 2010's funding levels. That's $78.5 billion below President Obama's original budget proposal, which would've added $40 billion to 2010's funding levels, and $6.5 billion below John Boehner's original counteroffer, which would've subtracted $32 billion from 2010's budget totals. In the end, the real negotiation was not between the Republicans and the Democrats, or even the Republicans and...

Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2011/04/09/president_acts_like_he_won_but_he_lost_253464.html

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