Deal-breaker?
A much better question in light of your extraordinary interpretation of events is, what did the President need to expose here?
My response was to your suggestion that the President engineered this elaborate negotiation to expose the republicans. The point of my "rant" is that the entire world already knows what the republicans want to do.
Under dubya, they tried to privatize social security. The "ryan plan" introduced in the House not too long ago proposed to convert Medicare to a voucher program. All the republican talking heads blather non-stop about how we have to cut "entitlement spending" in every public and broadcast forum available. These activities ran over and over on the "cable news" channels.
So where is the mystery? What part of the republican agenda has been the slightest bit unknown, unclear, and - for that matter, BRAGGED about adnauseum - by the republicans such that the President felt a series of secret, behind closed doors negotiations was going to reveal in a special way?
The answer is, "nothing." There was absolutely, positively, inarguably NOTHING new or unknown about what the republicans want to do in those negotiations.
That is why your premise is just completely groundless. It requires a total suppression of logic to entertain it without laughing. NO leader deserves this sort of blind faith.
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