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As the economy worsens, President Obama and his senior aides are considering whether to adopt a more combative approach on economic issues, seeking to highlight substantive differences with Republicans in Congress and on the campaign trail rather than continuing to pursue elusive compromises

You'd have to be pretty obtuse not to find this statement hilarious. Obama's idea of 'pursuing elusive compromise' is to whine, bully and lecture, in no particular order. It's certainly combative.

I don't know what 'more combative' would be. More whiny, more pushy, more sanctimmonious? Are they really wargaming that one, checking to see if it might hold some promise?

Hey, here's an idea. Give up. Get the hell out of the economy's way. Cut regulation. Cut spending. Then, when you're done, sail on to re-election.

Don't worry about the free advice. Obama would rather crash and burn than admit his policies don't work. That's why he's threatending to 'take it up a notch' rather than go back to the drawing board and get some real compromises going with the GOP. He's sooner lose an election than admit ideological defeat.

.....He's sooner lose an election than admit ideological defeat.

I believe the country falling apart is success in Obama's ideological world.

Those who agree cheer, those too stupid to understand are content to feed on the carcass.

Obama's bus tour an effort to connect with everyday Americans (been "trapped in Washington") ........"Obama appears to be trying out a campaign theme by blaming Congress - without a direction mention of Republicans - for the bitterness that led to an eleventh-hour debt limit agreement, and Earnest said the president was expecting to hear more anger on the road.

"The president does anticipate that he'll detect a little frustration about the dysfunction in Congress, and the strident position of some in Congress to put their partisan affiliation ahead of the country," he said.".....