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Originally Posted by djplong
Accepted.
Personally I think Obama has put a grenade in his re-election plans. If he tries to show that he was 'holding the line' on deficit spending or trying to rein in spending with the freeeze, people are going to ask why he "caved" on extending the tax cuts for the top 2% instead of doing what the Republicans do so well, taking an issue with a clear division and staying ON that message repeatedly.
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Howard Fineman in todays Huffington Post...
"By staking his next two years on hundreds of billions of dollars of new or renewed tax cuts -- none of them tied directly to compensating cuts in government spending -- Obama is alienating his own Democratic base in a way that could make him what Carter was: a one-term, ineffective "outsider" president."
From todays New York Times....
"President Obama’s compromise with Republicans on extending tax cuts for the wealthy, which his self-described progressive critics see as a profound betrayal, is bound to intensify a debate that has been bubbling up on liberal blogs and e-mail lists in recent weeks — whether or not the president who embodied “hope and change” in 2008 should face a primary challenge in 2012. "
All talk at this point...2 years is a lifetime in politics, but he is and has been in way over his head. During the primary many people saw it....an elitist with an attitude of always being right and always getting his way.
To speak the speak of compromise and then when it happens call the other side "hostage takers" is just plain nuts. BUT I think he believes that...I think he thinks that HE knows the way and nobody else. He has been like this his entire life