Woodward: Budget deal worked because Obama ‘not part of the negotiations’

[Revmitchell]

Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward has a theory for why Republicans and Democrats in the Congress were able to agree on a budget: President Barack Obama was far away from the negotiating table.

“I think this deal worked, quite frankly — let’s go right to the center of this — because Obama was not part of the negotiations,” Woodward said on Fox News Sunday. “He is not a good negotiator.”

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2013/12/15/w...part-of-the-negotiations-video/#ixzz2nZ68Brwj

 

[church mouse guy]

It worked because the country club Republicans lifted the automatic sequester and allowed increases in spending and "fees." The GOP caved, as usual.