DANGER: HYPOCRISY ALERT!

Yup...
Deep dark bad nasty shitstorm!! :-(((
And worst of all- a complete and utter vindication of Republican criticism which now validates them in their stonewalling of every needed change in policy, AND- allows them to bury him for doing exactly what they did and will do again when they take back the Congress next year!? Bizarre- his skillful campaign won on the back of true citizen reformers got swallowed by the Washington machine whole and he let his intellect lead him into the thicket of minutiae rather that implementing his revolutionary vision.
It is a real testament to temperament that leads to lack of leadership.
Worst of all, he had so much power to persuade after the election that no pandering to anybody was necessary but he fell to wheeling and dealing rather than compromise based on fighting for his first principles (if he really had them?) and he was hence robbed of any power and authority to call the demons by their names and bid them be gone! He needs to reread his New Testament and ponder peace-loving rational Jesus' approach to the money changers! Sometimes, Good needs to weild the whip and the sword and not merely the rhetoric of the teleprompter. Amen

Rachel Maddow spoke with Biden's Economic Policy Advisor Jared Bernstein, who went over some of the details in Obama's proposed three-year spending freeze on some programs.
The response has been tepid, if not hostile.
Paul Krugman calls the plan "appalling on every level." Says Krugman: "It’s bad long-run fiscal policy, shifting attention away from the essential need to reform health care and focusing on small change instead. And it’s a betrayal of everything Obama’s supporters thought they were working for. Just like that, Obama has embraced and validated the Republican world-view — and more specifically, he has embraced the policy ideas of the man he defeated in 2008. A correspondent writes, 'I feel like an idiot for supporting this guy.'"
Writes Bob Herbert in the NYT: "Mr. Obama may be personally very appealing, but he has positioned himself all over the political map: the anti-Iraq war candidate who escalated the war in Afghanistan; the opponent of health insurance mandates who made a mandate to buy insurance the centerpiece of his plan; the president who stocked his administration with Wall Street insiders and went to the mat for the banks and big corporations, but who is now trying to present himself as a born-again populist. Mr. Obama is in danger of being perceived as someone whose rhetoric, however skillful, cannot always be trusted. He is creating a credibility gap for himself, and if it widens much more he won’t be able to close it."
Says Maddow: "A spending freeze is like trying to put out a fire by pouring gasoline on it."