“Obama didn’t lift a finger to help the supercommittee succeed. In fact, he made it clear throughout the process — with his unserious ‘deficit reduction’ plan and his veto threat signaling any agreement must have a trillion-dollar tax hike — that he wanted the panel to fail in order to boost his lagging political prospects,” a GOP aide said.
White House press secretary Carney told reporters this week that Obama presented a “highly detailed and comprehensive plan, laying out exactly what he believe the supercommittee should do in order to achieve the kind of deficit reduction mandated by Congress itself.”
A Republican lawmaker who requested anonymity told The Hill that it is “probably in both their political interest to be seen as enemies, I don’t know that there’s much motivation to [work closely].”
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