Time To Declare Victory

[ProSense]

Time To Declare Victory

David Kurtz

You never win any Washington debate unless you declare yourself the winner. Period. No third party -- let alone the press -- will declare you the victor until you bestow the honors upon yourself. It's just the way the town works.

George W. Bush was very good at that. He declared himself the winner time and again, often when by any objective standard he was the clear loser. But it worked.

The Republicans via Mitch McConnell just balked in an epic, paradigm-shifting way that could finally shift the long-moldering debate on fiscal policy. The debt ceiling negotiations have revealed one of the bedrock foundational elements of the GOP platform -- spending cuts are the only way to balance the budget -- to be built on the shifting sands of political expediency.

Obama needs to quickly move to declare victory in this thirty-year debate on taxes. Do it now, with the biggest, wickedest grin he can muster while Republicans are in disarray fighting amongst themselves.

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[oasis]

1. "Beware of Geeks bearing gifts"

:scared:

[pscot]

2. That doesn't sound very bibartisan

Suppose it makes the Republicants mad and they refuse to cooperate any more?

[AtomicKitten]

3. Repubs are slippery. Extend the debt ceiling and THEN the happy dance

... in their face!!!

[ClassWarrior]

4. Wasn't that Nixon's strategy for Vietnam?

"Declare victory and get out?"

How'd that work out for ya?

NGU.