AFL-CIO to White House: Time to rescind your offer to Boehner

[Teamster Jeff]

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I’m not sure it’s widely understood just how angry some of the major stakeholders on the left are about the latest turns in the fiscal cliff talks. The sight of the White House offering more concessions to John Boehner, only to be met with more GOP intransigence in the form of his absurd Plan B, is stirring bad memories of 2011 and has some on the left insisting that the only proper response is for Obama to rescind his most recent offer.

Case in point: The AFL-CIO wants Obama to pull back his proposal to raise the income threshold on the tax hikes to $400,000 and to rescind the offer of Chained CPI on Social Security.

“He needs to recognize what everyone else recognizes, which is that he made an overly generous offer to Boehner, and Boehner threw it back at him,” Damon Silvers, the policy director for the AFL-CIO, told me this afternoon. “The appropriate response is to tell Boehner the offer is no longer valid.”

Silvers said Obama should reboot and get back to a set of proposals that is more in line with the policies he ran on — the ones that got him reelected.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2012/12/20/afl-cio-to-white-house-time-to-rescind-your-offer-to-boehner/

[Recursion]

1. You mean the offer that Boehner just slammed into at 90mph without an airbag? (nt)

[Teamster Jeff]

3. I would have preferred that boner crash..

without the President conceding SS cuts because that toothpaste is not going to go back in the tube.

[Recursion]

4. *shrug* I'd be willing to go to a chained CPI-E

My problem is not so much that cuts in projected rates of growth are intolerable (we're talking wild-ass guesswork here anyways) but that the spending patterns of a civil servant in the 1920's are probably not the best basis for assessing people's needs today.

[AnotherMcIntosh]

2. Rescind? We'll be lucky if he doesn't sweeten the offer.

Social Security is not related to the deficit. Yet he wants to cut SS and he is going to persist until he gets his way.