reid sat down with obama and obama said to them, in essence, you know, i m fine doing tax reform in 2013, fine doing entitlement reform during 2013 but you have to get me something to get there and what i m going to demand is some rates going up and he didn t get an explicit no, at least from what my sources are telling me from boehner. a lot of people are optimistic about that private sign that was given to them as indication that they are ready to deal even if publicly they re staking out far isn t this the case boehner has done that before. boehner in private could negotiate with the president and then he can t deliver. there s a thing called time. on december 31st doesn t matter what republicans want or don t want to do they will be negotiating a tax cut in 2013 because all the taxes will go up. politico says that democrats in the senate have their own fiscal concerns, fiscal cliff issues. harry reid will have to find 60 votes to extend just the middle income tax rates far fr
the fiscal cliff nxegotiations until they re completed and perhaps until a successor is confirmed? secretary geithner has indicated that he ll stay on through inauguration and he will be obviously, a key participant in the negotiations around the so-called fiscal cliff issues. so the president very much appreciates that. one last question. there have been reports that general petraeus has come to the white house as early as today to talk about his future. can you shed any light on that on whether he might be moving on in fact? you know i don t have any announcements to make on personnel matters. i ll address that question to the cia and the dni. is he coming to the white house today? not that i m aware of. yes. senator schumer has proposed one solution to the fiscal cliff challenge vis-a-vis tax rates is closing the loopholes as they
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