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and i go back to the summer of 2011 where the president and speaker boehner were negotiating over the debt ceiling at that time. and the president put on the table a provision that would have raised the medicare eligibility age over time to 67 in addition to chain cpi. the speaker didn t take that deal at the time, for various reasons. and then we ended up in this place. and once again, the last major offer the president made this time included chain cpi in addition to a tax rate threshold of $400,000. and the speaker, once again, didn t take it. so i understand that the speaker has different political considerations than the president, but in each instance, he s walked away from a potential deal that included entitlement program reforms and will end up likely with none of the above. and there s very little understanding about why, in the end, republicans didn t take that deal. there s a famous david brooks column from 2011 urging them to take the deal because that was

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