Somehow, Obama's "total cave" on the tax cut deal is being spun as a win for him because it's touted as a huge new stimulus thingie. Hard to imagine just how much of this I don't get.
But maybe there's some element of truth in it. 15 years ago, we figured Clinton must be doing something right because everybody was pissed at him for practically everything he did. Of course, a good bunch of the things he did came back around to bite us all in the ass, but that's another rant altogether.
So, I guess if even Chuckles Krauthammer says the Repubs are the ones who got rolled, we're just supposed to believe, shut up and go on about our business.
I try to pay pretty close attention, and I think I'm a fair hand at picking my way thru the sales pitch to find the difference between what a politician says and what actually happens, but like I said, I just don't seem to be gettin' it lately. Our little experiment in self-governing has gotten so twisted and complicated, that it's nigh on to impossible for anybody on the outside to know what's really going on. And I'm not convinced that more than a handful of people on the inside know a lot more than the rest of us.
I'm still waiting.
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