Calm down! The freeze is just politics… appallingly incompetent politics [View All]

Entering office some important tasks faced President Obama.

I felt that the most vital were these two:

1) Finishing off whatever remaining influence the Republican Party had
2) Educating the public about the deficit in the context of the economic crisis.

Those were the key priorities, IMO, because they were prerequisite to solving all our other problems. Without working on those two things the agenda couldn't advance and the economy couldn't be fixed.

He did not do either.

He did not even try to do either. In fact, he did the opposite of both!

The Panglossianism about how the freeze is good politics is insane.

Though the freeze will be null as policy (some wiggly BS adding up to nothing fiscally) it is a concession that the Republican view of our problems is correct and that the Democratic view is incorrect.

The message “Democrats suck and Republicans were always right about this incredibly important stuff” is not really great politics.

At least not for Democrats.