Depending on who you read tonight, President Obama has either 'Limited the Damage so Leave him Alone', or 'is the Worst President Evar' after the deal on the debt ceiling.
Or anywhere in between.
Poppycock and hogwash.
The real story is 50+ hardcore rightwing assholes in the House with the help of their 200 or so enablers (including some scared Democrats) took the country's economy hostage, begged us to make them press the trigger, and won.
They Won.
Now we must make them lose.
Instead of wasting our energy (either way dammit enough already this shit is getting so old even the flies are tired of buzzing around) on the President, we need to take back the house for sane people in 2012.
In fact that should be the message - 'If you are a sane person who believes in science, understands history, and has some basic fundamental grounding in reality, we don't care what you call yourself, we will vote for you in 2012'.
We must, for the sake of the nation, take back the House from the nutters who effectively run the place.
I mentioned in a comment earlier tonight that my Republican registered wife lost her cool when she heard the deal was done with no tax hikes and 100% spending cuts. She is livid at the nutjobs running the show. She is ready to get involved and fight to replace our semi-teabagger House Representative. We need to tap into that feeling and make 'em pay in 2012. Organize. Fight. Phonebank. And yes, pony up the dough. Most importantly, DON'T GIVE UP!
Give up cause we're mad at the President? Give up because we lost one battle in the war? Give up because 50+ knuckledraggers had the gall to hold the country hostage by gunpoint over a PROVEN failed ideology???? Give up because the rest of the Congress blinked, and begged 'em not to shoot?
Hell no.
There is too much still at stake.