Some People Are Easily Excited

As usual, the so-called liberals are all excited about Obama [getting tough](http://www.gregpalast.com/obama-is-a-two-faced-liar-aw-right) with the Republicans in Congress.

>Now I understand Obama's weird moves: dinner with those creepy conservative columnists, earnest meetings at the White House with the Republican leaders, a dramatic begging foray into Senate offices. Just as the Republicans say, it was all a fraud. Obama was pure Chicago, Boss Daley in a slim skin, putting his arms around his enemies, pretending to listen and care and compromise, then slowly, quietly, slipping in the knife. All while the media praises Obama's "post-partisanship." Heh heh heh.

In reality, the Republicans gave Obama the [bird](http://www.wsws.org/articles/2009/jan2009/stim-j29.shtml).

>The Republican vote was a public slap in the face to President Obama, who met separately with the Republican caucuses in the House and the Senate. Obama made numerous concessions to their demands, allotting fully one-third of the stimulus package to tax cuts, many of them targeted to corporate interests. He caved in to right-wing demagogy by eliminating such provisions as expanded funding of contraception services offered by local health clinics and improvements on the national Mall after House Republicans targeted these items for abuse