On the Compromiser-in-Chief and Elizabeth Drew's Article

via Ari Melber for Huffington Post

An alternative point of view from the left side of the political divide

1. a President, apparently, who embraces anti-spending conservatism. 
2. the tea party has turned positions once on the outer edge of conservative politics, like dismantling Medicare, into a minimum litmus test for GOP candidates.
3. argues that Obama has now traded unpopular but necessary Keynesianism for swing voter posturing.
4. The key allegation in Drew's article is that Obama is not only giving too much away ...but that he is doing so to politically save only himself.
5. Obama would not only fail to impress independent voters, he'd ensure a drubbing on a series of future fights, large and small, with his unreasonable opponents.  

There you have it.  We have spending that is the highest its ever been as a percentage of GDP, but the Democrats are innocent of trying to use this crisis for their own benefit.  Let's get real, they are trying to make the deficits permanent so as to give an excuse for a higher rate of taxation.  They aren't winning that battle, because if they were, the Republicans would be running scared right now.  But look who is, if you believe their own words here.