Yet Speaker John A. Boehner, who only a week ago again ruled out raising taxes, is demanding as part of a short-term deal that he and Mr. Obama return to the bargaining table for a deficit-reduction blueprint covering many years and ultimately saving trillions of dollars.
And the rhetoric of fairness is not a substitute for a long-term deficit reduction plan, a real blueprint for overhauling the entitlement system, or a comprehensive tax reform – none of which this White House will be offering, apparently, in the 2012 campaign.
But he ought to have produced a convincing blueprint for deficit reduction after that.
If a review finds that Greece's blueprint for deficit reduction is too weak, officials will demand deeper spending cuts.
President Obama has given the supercommittee a clear blueprint for $3.6 trillion in deficit reduction through a mix of spending cuts and tax increases on the rich.
The Fix the Debt campaign was created by Erskine B. Bowles and Alan K. Simpson, who were chairmen of a presidential commission charged with developing a blueprint for fiscal change and deficit reduction in 2010, and the group backs many of their recommendations.
WASHINGTON — The chairman of the Senate Budget Committee said on Tuesday that he would introduce the blueprint of President Obama's bipartisan deficit reduction panel to his committee as the starting point for negotiations over a long-term debt plan.
Senator Kent Conrad, the chairman of the Budget Committee, said on Tuesday that he would introduce the blueprint of President Obama's bipartisan deficit reduction panel to his committee as the starting point for negotiations over a long-term debt plan, Jonathan Weisman reports.
And if Mr. Bush's budget does not contain the spending and the Congressional plan does, the president's blueprint could look better by comparison when it comes to deficit reduction.
The Republican plan put forward by Representative Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, the chairman of the Budget Committee, and adopted by the House on Friday as its policy blueprint for the next decade contains a substantial dose of deficit reduction but is really a manifesto for limited government.
