Negotiation Similarity If one wanted to see the divide between Washington politicians over the budget in another context, one can just read about trade negotiations as printed today in Japan's Nikkei news service:  "Experience in other trade talks has given the U.S. ample practice in how to argue its case. It has overwhelmed Asian peers with a blizzard of demands, and the negotiations as such have been far from productive. And while Asian countries have opposed proposals made by the U.S., they have also not presented any alternatives to reach common ground." Democrats are aghast at the range of demands from Republicans (budget cuts, tax reform, entitlement reform, suspend Obamacare, etc.), some of which are impossible to accept, y...

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