Eyes on Obama

Early reports sug­gested that Obama’s speech tomor­row might be a total white flag. But through­out the day we’ve seen evi­dence that the pres­i­dent might present some­thing unex­pected tomor­row. The White House is being unusu­ally cagey on this one.

In other news, it turns out that early lib­eral dis­may about the 2011 bud­get deal was unfounded. This comes back to the idea that social pol­icy is king — if we “give up” $38.5 bil­lion in cuts that were going to hap­pen any­way, or that we actu­ally wanted, did we really lose the fight?

Maybe Obama’s got more game than we thought, and tomor­row will be our chance to find out.

12 April 2011 – 6:37 pm | By Benjamin Daniels | Posted in Politics | Comments (339)