The Last Several Days . . . | The Agonist:
". . . have not been without good news: the repeal of DADT, the passage of the new START treaty and today's Senate vote to actually do something for our 9/11 responders. So, credit where credit is due: Obama, the Senate Democrats and the House Democrats and a few, very few, Republicans willing to tell the party crazies to 'eff off.'"

I've seen this sentiment echoed in various lefty blogs but nobody is connecting the dots: this is the other shoe dropping from giving in to the Republicans on the Bush tax deal. And what did they get? Things that they would have gotten anyway! There is NO WAY START would not get passed. DADT was a matter of time. Even the military was for repeal! And would the Reps let the 9/11 Responders bill go down by the time the 2012 elections came around? I don't think even they are THAT stupid. Yet Obama gave away the store to get these things. And who pays for it? We, the taxpayers do. Color me unimpressed. We already have Obama pulling shit like this and there is all this posturing about cutting Social Security on the near horizon. This guy is still bad news.