Democrats Need to Stop Attacking Obama’s Budget and Wake Up to Reality

Robert Shrum asks why liberals can’t see the sense in Obama’s not-at-all draconian budget proposals.

Published Apr. 14 2013 4:45AM EDT

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You would think President Obama was proposing to repeal the New Deal. (Well, actually, that’s Paul Ryan.)

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This wasn’t the Republican reaction, of course, to a budget that was pre-dead on arrival, dismissed in advance by House Speaker John Boehner and disdained by the Tea-spooked Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell, who...

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Democrats Need to Stop Attacking Obama’s Budget and Wake Up to Reality

Robert Shrum asks why liberals can’t see the sense in Obama’s not-at-all draconian budget proposals.

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Robert Shrum