Here’s Why President Obama Won’t Negotiate with the GOP

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Standing on the outside, Washington looks something like the Western Front in World War I. Two deeply entrenched and bitterly divided sides, immune to each others’ small-arms fire and only bruised by direct hits from artillery. Democrats and Republicans, locked together in an awkward fiscal death dance by a bureaucratic Gordian knot, have found themselves in a type of brinksmanship in which the defense has the advantage, and as a result neither appears willing to move first.

Or, in other words, political firepower greatly overpowers political mobility. Each party has a fairly well defined position that they can not stray far from without being obliterated. No-man’s land is a natural product of trench warfare and as an observer, it’s almost reasonable that neither side would want to cross the divide.

But the United States is now stumbling through the second week of a partial government shutdown and is coming ever closer to exceeding its borrowing authority. The already embarrassing and economically damaging situation is only getting worse every day the impasse drags on, and eventually someone will have to lead the nation out of this mess.

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