Last December seems so long ago huh

[Johonny]

I remember when Obama felt he couldn't ignore an act of congress and just let gay serve openly in the military. Basically exercising his commander and chief hat and forcing the military to do this day 1 in office. No we dragged it out and waited to make a deal with Republicans in congress to pass a bill. Of course despite the massively dem heavy congress Obama had at he time, congress had to wait to act only after they already lost their jobs. Apparently they were too afraid the "gay" might screw up the election they were perfectly screwing up already. Worse if Obama just did it those nasty Republicans might run on it as an issue (they are running on it now as an issue even though Obama passed a bill to the shock of no one on Earth but the Dems in Congress and the White house). But then due to the magic of compromise we got gays in the military. All we traded was ending the Bush tax cuts. Of course we didn't have to trade anything, we didn't want the Bush tax cuts and we could already have gays in the military by executive order. But it was a great moment of leadership. All the under employed, unemployed and employed, but seeing their pay check walk backwards in the "new" economy, got to keep the Bush tax cut. Bush handed you a nickel and a dime and gave his rich friends millions but Obama made sure you kept that dime. Sure he might have tested if Republicans were really willing to raise taxes on the middle class at the expense of getting a blanket tax cut, but thanks to compromise we never found out.

So what did Obama really compromise. Well cutting the debt. Had he raised taxes the debt would be smaller. He would have proactively hurt the debt as a issue for the new Republican house. He might not have to deal social security and medicare to get a mild tax raise in the following summer. Why, because we raised taxes already! The projected debt for 2011 would be heading down (not gone but less) and even more fun jobs would increase in 2011. They were starting to go up already because the economy was recovering. Wow increased jobs after raising taxes, goodbye your Republican number one talking point. But we compromised. So now we had job increases after keeping the tax cut. Great strategy there White House, way to believe in your own economic work and that of the Dems in congress. If you believe in Democratic principals you had to trust you would be able to turn around the economy and increase taxes right?

Sure Republicans could have called Obama's bluff and let all the tax cuts expire. Obama raised your taxes they'd run on in 2012. Of course after the summer compromise to come you know what they are going to run on Obama raised taxes and Dems will had to have given something stupid up to get them. Something Dems didn't have to give up. Here's more of a shocker, they ran on Dems raising taxes in 2010 even though OBAMA HAD CUT THEM! They will always run on Dems having raised taxes if it is true or not, so why does Obama care? Oh for the joy of last Decembers compromise and whoa to the pain of this following summer as the Republicans and the White house reap the seeds the December compromise sowed. Hey as an added Bonus: OBama apparently can ignore acts of congress put on his commander and chief hat to start a third war with Libya. So ah what the * was the whole gays in the military inner party debate about again?