Obama Needs a Game Changer to Cut a Fiscal Cliff Deal
Posted at 8:45 a.m. on Nov. 12, 2012
Al Hunt: “The fiscal issue — taxes, spending and debt — is the gateway through which all subsequent actions have to follow. If the president and Congress cut a credible deal, a lot of options flow for both parties; if they don’t, the next two years will be like the last two.”
“One possibility is to enlist as a special negotiator the man who helped bail out the president this fall, former President Bill Clinton. There is no one who can better frame the economic/fiscal issue or knows more about dealing with the Republicans, who told us all year how fondly they remembered the Clinton years… If the president sticks with the regular order, look for no deals or a small-ball deal; the issue then will hang over his entire second term.”
