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“Obama: President; McConnell: Sucker”
Andrew Sullivan:

It’s been fascinating to watch the left’s emotional roller-coaster these past few weeks. It’s also been fascinating to watch Obama out-run them, and to observe their responses to the final deal in the last 24 hours. Krugman has gone from “Let’s Not Make A Deal” to “better than what I expected.” The response from the far-right has also been illuminating. Drudge rushed to declare Obama’s payroll tax cut as a Republican idea. Hinderaker below insists “Obama has admitted that the Republicans were right all along.” Notice something about all of this? They all now realize that Obama has been a little shrewder than they took him to be.

//snip

Now for the short-term benefits of resolving this tax-and-spend dilemma so swiftly. The president urgently needs to get the new START and DADT through the Senate. DADT would be a major boost for his base – and the country’s military. Getting START through is critical to his foreign policy cred. If he can pull all this off by Christmas – and the Senate should indeed stay open for an extra week – the last Congress will indeed be viewed by historians as one of the most substantive (and liberal) in recent history. And Obama will have orchestrated it – while ending up firmly planted and rebranded in the center.

Meep, meep.

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from today's journal www.blackwaterdog.wordpress.com

[Skittles]

1. LOL

:rofl:

[okieinpain]

2. is that a lol at the poster, or with the poster. n/t.

[Skittles]

3. lipstick on a turd LOL

[Catherina]

4. There isn't enough lipstick in the world to rebrand what they're selling. n/t

[EstimatedProphet]

5. This makes for an interesting definition of the word "sucker"

Apparently it now means "getting everything that you want without a fight".

[Number23]

6. I really like what I've seen from BWD

And if I live to be 200 I will never understand the wailing on DU over these tax extensions. I'm disappointed that the "wealthy" got an extension but if that means that the middle class and un/underemployed got an extension and some assistance as well, then I can suck up my disgust for a bit anyway.

Happy to rec.

[nofurylike]

7. k&(too late r) thank you for posting this, madamesilverspurs! it

is great!

i sure wish people would read it.

[Greyhound]

8. K&U for pimping a blog written by a guy that pulls stuff straight out of his ass?

I'm surprised at you.

I read Krugman every day (much to some other's distress as well) and he said http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/08/the-sorrow-and-the-self-pity-2/">no such thing. There has been no roller-coaster ride unless you believe falling off a cliff is the equivalent, and Obama can't even tally the numbers of supporters running away from him over this betrayal.

New Rules; "You Can't Lie Anymore; there's this thing called the internet and everybody's got a video camera"
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