Erskine Bowles said he was as shocked as anyone to find out that Obama had ditched his own presidential fiscal commission. He said that he believes that Obama’s Chicago political team convinced Obama to let Paul Ryan go first so that he, coming after, would look like the reasonable one.

But Bowles said he fully expected it to be in the State of the Union, especially after the commission came up with exactly what Obama had asked for in their preparations. And while all the investments that Obama talked about in the SOTU he agreed with, Bowles said that by leaving out the fiscal commission Obama failed to underscore how the investments needed to be done in a fiscal manner.




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Richard
Richard

Do you actually believe Obama knows anything about economics? He probably took courses like Marxism 101 at Columbia. Unfortunately we have a media working for the White House and an ignorant population. Rush did a great job explaining why Michelle Obama was booed at the NASCAR race in FL!

cabensg
cabensg

He also explained why the supper committee was supposed to fail and why there aren't really any military cuts. Spending will be the same just not go up that is not cutting.

Linky1
Linky1

"He said that he believes that Obama’s Chicago political team convinced Obama to let Paul Ryan go first so that he, coming after, would look like the reasonable one."

There's the red flag - the Chicago "political" team. Political, my a$$ - that's the Occupier-in-Chief's henchmen calling in their favours (kinda like the Godfather) to this sham of a puppet president.

PunditPawn
PunditPawn

This is why Obama will go down as the most partisan fool in history, succumbed to his own pompous arrogance.

Kind of like letting John Boehner continue to be Speaker.