Richard Eskow at the Campaign for America’s Future rightly calls this latest self-Party-and-American people saboutage a “moral challenge” and a “wake-up- call.”
Paul Krugman in his Times blog alludes to the abjectness in Obama’s character that keeps him over and over again “DESPERATELY SEEKING ‘SERIOUS’ APPROVAL”–endlessly bidding for acceptance by those most obdurately opposed to him. And endlessly espousing the “Serious” credo that the poor and middle class must pay for the rapacity of the rich.