.................",” she said, calling Obama “our champion at the table,” and dismissing the notion that he may have “muddied” the issue for Democrats by indicating he was open to entitlement reform.
Obama yielded far more substantive ground than the Republicans, but the upside politically is that there will be no blurring of the lines between the two parties going into an election year.
The voters will have a real choice between two very different visions of government and its role. For Democrats, if anything constructive came out of this contentious debate, other than averting default, it is the fact that the Tea Party set the agenda, and that what its members have in mind may not be what the voters expected when they elected them."
Oh yeah ...we definitly push the idea that the Tea Party set the agenda that led to our being downgraded and the resulting pain that will inflict on all Americans.
The upside to the downgrade is that the Tea Party is going down in 2012.
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