The Boston Globe ran the story headlined Obama backs off from summer deals. The first pargraph says:

When President Obama announces at least $2 trillion in long-term deficit reduction measures today, he will not include all the compromises he reached with House Republican leaders before budget cutting talks broke off.

Since when are bargaining positions in negotiations that never reach a conclusion called deals? Is this an attempt by The Boston Globe to outfox Faux Noise in the field of biased journalism?

Perhaps The Boston Globe has never heard the negotiating ploy, “This is the deal, take it or leave it.”  The Republicans decided to leave it.  They cannot expect to take it latter.  Once the left it the proposed deal was “off the table” to put it in words that Republicans understand.

Obama’s taking up proposals that Republicans once made and reject after he proposes them is not quite the same thing as choosing a different strategy when your first one is rejected.  Yet there is enough similarity that the Republicans ought to understand a deal is not a deal until both sides agree to it.

Conveniently, the new incarnation of The Boston Globe web site does not allow comments yet.  Perhaps this blog post will have the same effect as my other post, The New York Tines Wages Class Warfare, had on The New York Times.