Note about the fight between Congress and the President over tax hikes and spending cuts:
While I am almost certainly going to be accused of “supporting Obama” on this, I would prefer people take my word because I have said this over and over and over again for more than 15 years including multiple times on my blog and about multiple Presidents and Congresses:
When Congress picks a fight with the President, no matter who the President or who leads the Congress, the President usually wins in the public eye.
Prediction: if the President plays chicken on this tax and spending issue and doesn’t flinch, he wins one way or the other politically.
Dean Esmay is the author of Methuselah’s Daughter. He has contributed to Dean’s World, Huffington Post, A Voice for Men, Pajamas Media. Neither left nor right wing, neither libertarian nor socialist.