Washington Post honcho Bob Woodward is set to release a new tell-all on the US debt negotiations that ended in disaster last summer. He lays the blame squarely at the feet of the president.
But at a critical juncture, with an agreement tantalizingly close, Obama pressed Boehner for additional taxes as part of a final deal — a miscalculation, in retrospect, given how far the House speaker felt he’d already gone.
The president’s misplaced belief in his own magnificence comes through loud and clear in Woodward’s reporting.