David Brooks on the fiscal cliff: GOP has a brain freeze
New York Times columnist David Brooks on Sunday said Republicans had prevented a deal to avert the so-called fiscal cliff because the party was at odds with itself.
Whats happening in Washington right now is pathetic. When you think about what the revolutionary generation did, what the civil war generation did, what the World War II generation did, were asking not to bankrupt our children and weve got a shambolic, dysfunctional process, he remarked on NBCs Meet the Press.
Now I think most of the blame still has to go to the Republicans, Brooks added. Theyve had a brain freeze since the election. They have no strategy. They dont know what they want. They havent decided what they want.
Republican House Speaker John Boehner (OH) broke off budget negotiations with the President Barack Obama earlier this month and attempted to pass his Plan B bill. Boehners proposal would have extended tax cuts for those making less than $1 million a year, but died to due to a lack of support from his own party.
But Obama was partially at fault too, according to Brooks, who said the President had governed like a visitor from a morally superior civilization at times. Brooks said Republicans needed to be reassured that Obama wouldnt screw them if they took a risk.
They do not feel that right now.
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