Everybody freakout.....NOW

If you don't read other liberal blogs, but you are following the debt ceiling "crisis", then you're probably thinking "the President has offered all kinds of stuff to the republicans, but those idiots can't take yes for an answer." If, on the other hand, you do read liberal blogs (or watch "liberal" TV show hosts) then you're probably thinking "OH NOES!!! The President is going to sell out everything we care about & get nothing in return!!! I can't believe that (unattributed reports say) that he's offered to raise the Medicare eligibility age to 67!!! Why can't he negotiate?? WHY?? WHY???"

Exhibit A: A lovely post entitled "Barack Obama more disappointing by the day" at Daily Kos (no link love from me).

I have also come to the conclusion that Barack Obama will never fight for anything. Compromise, do what ever to go along and get along, that is him but fight, he won't. We saw it through the health care battle, we saw him cave into extending the Bush Tax Cuts (which is part of the problem that put him in this dilemma) and now we are seeing him ready to under cut his own health care law just to make a deal.

Pathetic.

I agree. It's pathetic how willing some on "the left" are to condemn the President for getting as much as he can rather than holding out for his entire wishlist. Funny how he left out the part about "caving on the Bush tax cuts" bringing an unemployment insurance extension over the holidays & the repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell. Must have slipped his beautiful pure mind.

I'll end with this from Lawrence O'Donnell - a man not known for his abundant praise of the President.

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