Jane Hamsher: What the “Fiscal Cliff” Deal Portends for the Upcoming Debt Ceiling Fight

Jane @ FDL ..

While the White House is claiming official victory, there seems to be no shortage of Democrats who think the President blinked and left them in a weak position for the upcoming fight over the debt ceiling .. Krugman calls Obama the “conceder in Chief” .. There is some joy to be taken in the fact that nobody was able to harpoon the elusive white whale of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, and that somewhere Pete Peterson weeps

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