Look Who's Refusing To Compromise To Avoid The Fiscal Cliff

Investor's Business Daily ^ | 11/13/2012 | IBD Staff

[IBD editorial writer]

Budget Talks: If President Obama wants to get a deficit deal done to avoid the fiscal cliff, his biggest challenge won't be Republicans, but his own hard-core left-wing supporters.

Two days after the election, Obama's favorite economist, Paul Krugman, set the tone for the intransigent left in a column titled: "Let's not make a deal." Boiled down, his advice to Obama was this: Don't give in to any Republican demands, even if doing so would "inflict damage on a still-shaky economy." After all, Obama would be better positioned to "weather any blowback from economic troubles."

Krugman's advice may be disturbingly cold and calculating, but he has plenty of company on the left.

[lowbridge]

[LibLieSlayer]

Yes... he blew a few grains of rice into his own butt and cut his finger on the helm of his PBR. Multiple Purple Heart recipient.

LLS

[skeeter]

Something tells me Krugman will be among those squealing like a pig about the House's intransigence when the collapse comes.

These people are clinically insane.

[Terry Mross]

I guarantee obama’s puppets will cave if the republicans call their bluff. They’ll scream “the republicans want to give the wealthy a tax cut” for a while but eventually they’ll cave and say they did it to help the middle class. If the GoP had any guts at all they simply say “We came to an agreement last year. Twelve senators came up with a stupid idea, and that’s what the senators called it, now we must live with it.”

[R. Scott]

That was good enough for 0bama.

[ArrogantBustard]

Wow ...

Once upon a time, boys and girls, that was funny.