OBAMA WANTS THE ECONOMY TO COLLAPSE. Everything this man has done has been towards those ends. Research Cloward – Piven.

The president’s veto threat is a bluff.

no. He would rather have a veto than a solution

Even if he could shift all the political blame for such a legislative failure onto congressional Republicans, Mr. Obama cannot afford to risk a new recession that would irreparably damage his second term

Price is no object

Many Democrats don’t want to raise taxes on successful small business owners without Republican votes as political cover.

They are willing to let business owners implode until the GOP capitulates

In the long run, Republicans must refuse to engage in ad hoc summitry and insist upon a return to a regular, committee-based legislative process that includes annual budget resolutions and open-floor amendments.

Somewhat correct. Right now Obama controls the arguments and the GOP reacts. They need to pass a small bill in the house, post haste, and then spend their time defending and promoting a real bill. Obama can dismiss the House bill, or argue against it, but now he will discussing GOP ideas. Notice the Senate is sitting silent like a snake. They obviously have less fear of the public than author suggests

I suggest this bill:
1. Extend unemployment to the max
2. Return the payroll tax for Social Security to the original level
Use the argument the Payroll Tax has to be restored to pay for the unemployment, since the current reduction in payroll forces the Social Security Administration to take money from the general fund to pay social security checks
3. People will complain about the increase in payroll tax. After they have complained, a Republican group will insist people with income under 100K get a credit on the increase in Payroll tax.

Then, spend you time arguing about your own bill, and move the arguments to Congress and away from the WH.

Stick to your own bill and keep itnarrow

The bill will not help finances one bit, but it will give the GOP a credibility for the next step, which should simply be a holding pattern. They accomplish this bill first, or no bill at all (use Obama’s tactic against him)

If this bill actually goes through, demand the Bush tax cuts, since they have now helped the worst off the the general public and now they need the tax cuts to create jobs. Government jobs will just deplete the Treasury which they just rescued for Social Security and Unemployment

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Mr. Obama cannot afford to risk a new recession that would irreparably damage his second term.

Why? He’s not running again, and he cares not a whit about the other Democrats who will be up for election in 2014. He’s done all the damage he can through Congress at this point. He knows he’s not getting a two-chamber majority again. At this point, his best bet for getting what he wants is to let us go over “the fiscal cliff.” Then everyone’s tax rates go up and the military budget gets cut, two things he wants to accomplish. The rest he will try to do by executive order and regulation, which he doesn’t need Congress for.

Mr. Obama cannot afford to risk a new recession that would irreparably damage his second term.

Right. Because his election campaign could be damaged.