Originally Posted by Relentless

All true but for one key point you are forgetting... Obama, Romney, the Dems and the GOP are all funding by exactly the same people. Yes, the Unions favor one over the other and the Koch brothers favor one over the other... but for the most part they get the same money from Goldman Sachs, the Billionaires and the meaningful CEOs. That crowd sits down together often enough and so do the politicians behind closed doors.

My strong suspicion is that a deal has already been cut, including detailed policy changes AND the way in which the deal will be announced, packaged, sold to low ranking politicians and to the public. Obama, Boehner, Mitch McConnell, Pelosi, and their cronies already have the deal in their pocket in pencil. They may even have discussed Obama making outlandish requests for 1.6T in taxes just so they could save face by saying "we got him down to 900B and that was the best we could do."

If I'm right it will be capped deductions, a much smaller tax increase than you expect, a buffet rule, roughly equal budget cuts (mostly from the military) AND they already know the details but don't want to make it seem like the GOP caved too easily or that Obama wimped out.

They all have the same masters. We no longer have a true 2 party system.