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This from today's ZNET, the website most avoided by Fox News watchers and Gleaner readers.
Obama’s latest move strategically means he has put his own party in a box. Democrats in Congress will take the heat—and suffer the losses in the next election if they agree to massive spending cuts that include Medicare and other programs. Democrats will also no longer appear as the defenders of social security and Medicare against mercenary Republicans bent on destroying those programs. But Obama by this move gets to appear as the big spending cutter. That will no doubt translate into more corporate campaign contributions. It is a move designed to appeal to the independents and moderate Republican vote in the next election, at the expense of his own base. Obama and his advisors are no doubt betting his own Democratic voter base will stick with him against some crazy right wing opponent in the presidential elections. But the Republicans will not prove so stupid to run a Bachmann type. And Obama’s base, which already last year showed serious signs of being demoralized by the President’s constant concessions, and stayed home in last year’s midterm elections, will once again not come out to vote in 2012. They will stay home.
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Obama’s latest move strategically means he has put his own party in a box. Democrats in Congress will take the heat—and suffer the losses in the next election if they agree to massive spending cuts that include Medicare and other programs. Democrats will also no longer appear as the defenders of social security and Medicare against mercenary Republicans bent on destroying those programs. But Obama by this move gets to appear as the big spending cutter. That will no doubt translate into more corporate campaign contributions. It is a move designed to appeal to the independents and moderate Republican vote in the next election, at the expense of his own base. Obama and his advisors are no doubt betting his own Democratic voter base will stick with him against some crazy right wing opponent in the presidential elections. But the Republicans will not prove so stupid to run a Bachmann type. And Obama’s base, which already last year showed serious signs of being demoralized by the President’s constant concessions, and stayed home in last year’s midterm elections, will once again not come out to vote in 2012. They will stay home.
Those who think that I don't know what I'm talking about can avoid reading the rest of the article as they usually do by not going to:
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