Dear Leader invites GOP legislators for dinner to 'discuss' impasse - advice to GOP legislators: this is a set up. With the press [wonder of wonders!] sort of turning on him viz the sequester and polls suggesting a majority of Americans not really buying what he's desperately trying to sell viz the sequester Obama's no doubt feeling like he's maybe made a mistake here, that he could be losing dictatorial control of his cherished narrative and so better try and trick the GOP into handing it back to him - don't agree to anything until you've figured out how he's planning to sell it because however he's planning to sell it it's meant to make you look bad - either he'll offer something that seems reasonable but he knows you will reject so that he can then paint you as extremists - or he'll offer something that actually is reasonable but he'll do so in such a way as to make it look like it was only made possible by his great leadership and magnanimous forbearance in the face of right wing zealotry. If you've actually managed to wrest the narrative from his imperial hands, do not now offer it back because you've been fooled into thinking Dear Leader's intentons are honest and free of cynical calculation. They're not.
[on that whole 'liberal press dares to find fault with idol Obama wonder of wonders', this a nice piece that gives voice to the hopes one tends to worry will never be fulfilled given the whoreson nature of the times. Of course there's always been the chance/likelihood that arrogance and ideological blindness would lead the administration into serious missteps - but they've already made many mistakes and it hasn't mattered - what needed to happen and all at the same time was, one, Americans increasingly becoming sick and tired of Obama, two, the press increasingly becoming sensitive to looking like suckers being played by Obama and consequently breaking formation, and three, the GOP posturing itself as if it actually had a clue as to what it was doing. Maybe with sequestration the three are in alignment - way too early to say that though, this games's far from over]
