The good is the New Deal and Great Society programs are still alive for awhile, as long as Obama doesn't try and fritter them away at some future date, but the bad news is the revenue from those Bush tax cuts aren't made up:
So why the bad taste in progressives’ mouths? It has less to do with where Obama ended up than with how he got there. He kept drawing lines in the sand, then erasing them and retreating to a new position. And his evident desire to have a deal before hitting the essentially innocuous fiscal cliff bodes very badly for the confrontation looming in a few weeks over the debt ceiling.
If Obama stands his ground in that confrontation, this deal won’t look bad in retrospect. If he doesn’t, yesterday will be seen as the day he began throwing away his presidency and the hopes of everyone who supported him.
What Paul doesn't seem to understand is Obama has NO USE for the people who voted for him; instead, his only constituencies are Wall Street and the financial elite.
The same constituencies to which the GOP panders.
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