Why the White House Must Stop Trying to Negotiate With the GOP

Uhm, White House? When you are negotiating with *epistemic relativists, this doesn't work:

the White House argues the president has already essentially agreed to $44.8 billion in spending cuts from his original proposal. Add the current $6.5 billion in new cuts proposed today and voila! – roughly half of $100 billion.

Republicans argue that President Obama’s original budget is a nonsensical baseline from which to begin since it was never enacted.