The Middle-Man v. the Orange Man. We all lose :(

There I was reading Eliot Spitzers' column where he writes that back in December 2010 President Obama had a wonderful opportunity:

why, as a condition for extending the Bush tax cuts, which President Obama repeatedly said he opposed, did he not require the Republicans to raise the debt ceiling then? Why didn't he make raising the debt ceiling part of the transaction that extended the Bush tax cuts? Why did he give the Republicans a second bite at the apple, cutting the revenue first, and then a chance to hold the government hostage again in the summer. 

As much as I agreed with him, it felt oddly familiar.

Could it be that Spitzer was working off this satirical comic strip with Obama as the incredible "Middle-Man" ...?

Oh well ... in any case, looks like there are more and more fleeing the Obama ship.

To those couple of people who back in 2008 tried to convince me that Obama is the man, I have only four words for you: "I told you so"

Robert Reich reminds us who the ultimate losers will be thanks to President Pushover and the Tea Party Lunatics:

As more and more Americans lose faith that their government can do anything to bring back jobs and wages, they are becoming more susceptible to the Republican’s oft-repeated lie that the problem is government — that if we shrink government, jobs will return, wages will rise, and it will be morning in America again. And as Democrats, from the President on down, refuse to talk about jobs and wages, but instead play the deficit-reduction game, they give even more legitimacy to this lie and more momentum to this vicious political cycle.
The parallel universes are about to crash, and average Americans will be all the worse for it.