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To: Bearcatbob who wrote (9329)	2/15/2012 10:00:24 AM
From: Bread Upon The Water	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 85487

OK, Bob, based on the first part of your answer I'd be glads to meet you at the 19th hole sometime! As for the second part, I think its a matter of two eyewitnesses to the same event interpreting it differently. Hey we're human and we each bring a different perspective to the same set of facts. My take is that when Obama assembled the budget summit last summer he thought (perhaps naively) that for the sake of the country men of good will would find a way to do something. My take on this is that the newly elected congressman felt it was more important (for whatever reason) to draw a line in the sand. As a result: Gridlock. Now lesson learned for the President: This is no longer the Illinois Statehouse where backscratching will overcome philosophy. Therefore, he's no longer willing to extend his hand just to have it spurned. He now is going to play his automatic deficit reduction hand so the choice will be on the congress either to accept those cuts or to choose the cuts they want. May not be leadership per se, but I've heard Obama played a lot of Poker in Illinois (every Wed. nite I think) and so will now play the political cards he's been dealt--which I think contain a few aces for him. Or at least he'll play them until a stronger possibility opens up a way forward.