Let the spin on the budget deal begin:
An online Fox News analysis detailing on how the budget deal was a huge victory for House Speaker John Boehner and a huge defeat for Barack Obama and the Democrats is HERE.
And, indeed, in the end Boehner got more than he originally asked for and Obama is dealing with an increasingly concerned and upset liberal base. But is Obama starting to get the image of the person in the middle whom independent voters find appealing, rather than as the way many liberals now view him as someone who “caves”? Upcoming polls will be interesting.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.