Christ on a Cracker

The White House's debt ceiling spin (happening now)—on the massive capitulation to conservative hostage taking—will hijack the very idea of progressivism in order to make the deal appear as a victory.

Hostage taking Republicans.
Hijacking Democrats.

Everything lurches to the right.

Fuck these people.


Updated, Krugman:

It is, of course, a political catastrophe for Democrats, who just a few weeks ago seemed to have Republicans on the run over their plan to dismantle Medicare; now Mr. Obama has thrown all that away. And the damage isn’t over: there will be more choke points where Republicans can threaten to create a crisis unless the president surrenders, and they can now act with the confident expectation that he will.