FYI - Obama not triangulating - blamed Republicans.

[Pirate Smile]

@DavidCornDC: Obama not triangulating. Notes Ds were willing to make entitlement concessions with him and Rs won't budge.

@DavidCornDC: Note that Obama didn't blame congressional dysfunction. He blamed GOP intransigence. Big difference.

@DavidCornDC: Smart of Obama not to get sucked into super committee failure. Silly GOP argument: this would've worked had O been at the table.

@DavidCornDC: My hunch: Capitol Hill Ds more willing to live with autocuts than Rs. If so, shows that O negotiations in this summer were quasi-successful.

@DavidCornDC:Obama positioning himself to be the fiscal enforcer of Washington. Much better positioning than the Rs who are playing blame-game.

[politicasista]

1. Good

cause Dems' Facebook pages are getting slammed with hateful comments. Hopefully he will rally to them, like they have for him when they are up for re-election.

[lamp_shade]

2. I hope he's (Corn) on with Al or Chris or Ed or Rachel or Lawrence... or all of em.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

3. After everything we've seen of the R's since 2009

The idea that they would've swooned and finally cut a deal had President Obama been involved (which they reportedly did not want anyway) is patently ridiculous and I'm not exactly how Marco Rubio, et. al can claim anything different with a straight face.

[Pirate Smile]

4. I know. It is idiotic but so many of the stupid pundits will just repeat it.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

5. Yes I know *sigh*

Has anybody written a book about how to cope and stay sane when surrounded by insanity? :crazy:

[Skittles]

7. but isn't that their pattern?

fail, blame in on Democrats, get the corporate media to repeat it endlessly until the Fox News-loving conservative idiots believe it???

[Proud Liberal Dem]

8. Yeah, I know the pattern by now

it just frustrates me that so many people wind up believing it. Check out today's Politico article (and the FB comments are pretty bad too): http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1111/68895.html

It's like all of those budget negotiations and the attempt at a "grand bargain" earlier this year never even happened (and failed for the exact same reasons). :puke: :banghead:

[joshcryer]

6. It's awesome, I just watched the video on WhiteHouse.gov.

He's so goddamn laid back in his little speech that it's ridiculous. :D