Obama gets intense

It is about time. After the Election Day debacle, following Republican gloating and continued recalcitrance, the President struck a tax deal with the Republicans. It extends the Bush tax cuts for two years, cuts the payroll tax, and a few other things. Liberals are apoplectic.


If that's the standard by which we are measuring success or core principles, then, let's face it, we will never get anything done," Obama said. "People will have the satisfaction of having a purist position and no victories for the American people, and we will be able to feel good about ourselves and sanctimonious about how pure our intentions are and how tough we are

Exactly. What liberals continue to fail to see and understand is that this country can not governed from the left. They thought they had their guy in Obama, and can not accept he is not doing their bidding. Katrina vanden Heuvel is one of the lefties that is upset: Obama: On the way to a failed presidency? This isn't about conventional politics. This is simply about the fate and future of our country. This president has a clear and imperative historic mandate. If he shirks it, he risks more than failing to get reelected. He risks a failed presidency.

She details the liberal agenda that she charges the President has abandoned, and the conservative agenda he has adopted. But, in his first two years the President (almost) had 60 votes in the Senate; in one month he won't. How is he supposed to accomplished the liberal agenda?