The ‘Grand Bargain’ is Dead

[kpete]

The ‘Grand Bargain’ is Dead
Posted at 1:01 p.m. on Dec. 9

Ezra Klein and Evan Soltas announce that the upcoming budget deal “is a signal that the age of grand bargains is over.”

“It doesn’t put the nation’s finances on a vastly different path (or even any different path). It doesn’t reform the tax code or overhaul Medicare. It doesn’t include infrastructure spending or chained-CPI. It doesn’t even replace all of sequestration.”

On the positive side, the deal incorporates small changes and “is the work of human hands rather than automatic cuts … And it would be a small but real boost to the economy.”

“What we don’t know is if the age of mini-deals has yet begun.”

http://wonkwire.rollcall.com/2013/12/09/grand-bargain-dead/

[Kablooie]

1. How can it be dead, it was never born in the first place.

The Republicans aborted it in spite of their proclaimed opposition to abortion.