I don't know if this is, in part, a result of Obama admitting the political landscape has changed and wants to lure some Republicans. Or if it's a small part of a much larger fiscal overhaul by the administration that has very little to do with bipartisanship.
Either way it doesn't really matter because Republicans won't support it and will always claim they want more and more freezes and cuts. Republicans have never cut spending or froze anything; nevertheless, they will get to pretend, and the media will surely follow, that they are truly fiscal conservatives and have always been. It's like Groundhog Day.
If it is part of the Obama administration trying to be more bipartisan then he's completely stupid.
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