Baby Bust: That time boomers tried to do a Grand Bargain for the future and it all went bust.
The brief bipartisan moment when it seemed like some real change might happen vanished as quickly as it appeared.
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Show Notes
President Barack Obama — technically a late-era boomer but more Gen X by personal temperament — attempted to strike a “grand bargain” with tea party-led Republicans and then-House Speaker John Boehner to address long-term entitlement sustainability and spending issues along with significant tax hikes. POLITICO's editor Carrie Budoff Brown expains how and why it all fell apart.
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