Charles Krauthammer nails it
here:
If Barack Obama wins reelection in 2012, as is now more likely than not, historians will mark his comeback as beginning on Dec. 6, the day of the Great Tax Cut Deal of 2010.
Obama had a bad November. Self-confessedly shellacked in the midterm election, he fled the scene to Asia and various unsuccessful meetings, only to return to a sad-sack lame-duck Congress with ghostly dozens of defeated Democrats wandering the halls.
Now, with his stunning tax deal, Obama is back. Holding no high cards, he nonetheless managed to resurface suddenly not just as a player but as orchestrator, dealmaker and central actor in a high $1 trillion drama.
... hoping for strong Republican leadership.
2 comments:
I think Krauthammer has it wrong. Note that it's still called the *Bush* tax cuts. Not much credit for The One. The independents and conservatives see no credit for him, and his base sees it as craven surrender.
The media will spin this positively. Obama's base doesn't care about taxes, most of them don't pay any. All they care about is entitlemens, extended umeployment insurance, subsidies for ethanol and window power ...
Each item in that bill should have been voted on separately.
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