I'm not suggesting that this was a good deal, but what did you think they could do? One of the few reasonable outcomes came from this fight: Obama and the dems have shown they only want to spend more, have no solution, and their popularity is markedly down. There is no where for the dems to go if we double dip because they will own it.
We'll see what happens. I'm not happy, but am not sure what else could have been done barring full fledged revolution.
I agree. I think all of us agree that we want Obama to own his own putrid economy in the view of voters. I did not want to see him wiggle out of it by blaming the GOP for rising interest rates.
All of us hate raising the debt ceiling, but I think seeing Obama reelected and Pelosi speaker again would be worse.