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Originally Posted by Cowperson
To another extremist with goalposts at the other end of the playing field, I suppose that would look extremist.
Cowperson
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Let's look at it beginning of this debate to each side's endgame and the final result:
The President insisted that the focus be on a combination of revenue/tax increases, spending cuts and that a debt ceiling limit that went beyond the next election.
The Republicans focused on spending cuts and capping any increase of the debt ceiling on a dollar for dollar reduction in spending--cut, cap and balance.
Now fast forward to day. The Democrats have no revenue increases, and are arguing over how much and the length of the amortization of the spending cuts will be.
There are no political winners in this but (yes my favourite word) from a policy perspective, the Republicans have clearly won the debate on where we are taking this country going forward.
What is scary is the Tea Party doesn't even know how to celebrate a victory or know when they have won. They have changed DC for the worse imho.
That is not the somewhere in the middle from that metric. But I get what you are saying that it is subjective.