Nothing

"Senator? You can have my answer now, if you like. My final offer is this: nothing."--Michael Corleone

The Obama administration may have finally figured out--as noted by Ezra Klein on The Last Word last night, with its Godfather II theme--how to negotiate with republicans.  Seems the President sent them the initial proposal for the fiscal slope negotiations by raising his middle finger and saying , "Here's my offer, motherfuckers.  Suck on it."

The Obama administration has realized they won the election, won with their message, and won it handily.  They don't have to negotiate and they shouldn't.  While time will tell if the President will stick to his guns, it certainly is a welcome change to past negotiation tactics.  We don't have to cave on the social safety net programs and we shouldn't.  If the republicans want to hold the middle class tax cuts hostage, let them.  It certainly won't hurt our chances in 2014.

But the best part is watching republicans choke on it as they realize their piss poor agenda just isn't selling to a majority of the American public who fully understand that the wealthy don't create jobs, CEOs are as fallible as every other joker on the planet, and that the business community and its patrons just don't have our best interests at heart.  Republicans are not the solution, they're the problem.

Schadenfreude, indeed.

Peace,
emaycee