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As GOP Sinks Plan B, Obama Should Tune Out His Own Party’s Doubters

Fiscal Cliff

The speaker may bow to his own party’s extremists, but the president shouldn’t. By Robert Shrum.

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John Boehner’s Plan B is pure BS. It couldn’t even pass the House. It would have no chance in the Senate. And it would be vetoed by the president.

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