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Columbus Dispatch
Blame Game back in Cliff talks
By Lisa Mascaro and Melanie Mason
Wednesday December 12, 2012 

WASHINGTON — Optimism surrounding secretive high-level budget talks faded quickly yesterday amid a fresh round of partisan finger-pointing, reducing the chances of resolving the fiscal standoff by Christmas. 

House Speaker John Boehner of West Chester spoke to President Barack Obama by phone late in the evening after presenting a GOP counteroffer. 

Republicans, meanwhile, showed further signs of political division. Top members of the party, including former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour and an influential business group, said the GOP should accept the president’s offer to raise tax rates on the top 2 percent of Americans in exchange for spending cuts. 

“If you have the whole package, I would hold my nose — despite the fact that raising those two tax brackets is bad economics, bad for jobs, is going to hurt the economy,” Barbour, a past chairman of the Republican National Committee, said on MSNBC’s Morning Joe. “I would hold my nose to get the other done.”

The Business Roundtable, made up of chief executives from some of the nation’s largest companies, shifted from its long-standing opposition to tax-rate hikes… 

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