I agree with Andrew Sullivan’s assessment of David Brooks criticism of Obama. It begins:
He’s [Brook’s] venting at Obama today for finally absorbing the ineluctable fact that the current GOP will never, ever support increasing government revenues, and thereby cannot get to the Grand Bargain so many of us want. But look: Obama has put Medicare on the table before and got nothing for it. He has even cut Medicare and been pilloried by the GOP for it. He has been open to major tax reform: they are uninterested until they regain the White House. He compromised on the extension of the Bush tax cuts … only to be ambushed by the debt ceiling fiasco, which seriously hurt him.
If Obama was Jesus (which he can’t be because he’s a Muslim, right?) he’d keep turning the other cheek. I guess turning it a dozen times is all he’s capable of.
