2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Do you realize what Obama actually did here? [View all]TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)this is brilliant win for our side.
Did we get everything? Of course not-- who expects everything?
But...
In addition to a deal that is far less hurtful than it could have been, we have seen the end of the Norquist pledge and probably Norquist himself.
We're seeing the end of teabaggery and its influence on the House.
We've seen the limits to big money in campaigns and policies.
We're seeing a Republican party in the vary unfamiliar throes of disagreement and rupture. (That's usually us.)
We might have displaced a Speaker without winning the House.
So...
Although there's still much complaining in this thread, I suspect most of us get it-- in two months we get the big budget battle where Obama doesn't have to worry abut being re-elected but the House does. Watch and learn, grasshopper.
Enjoy the quiet revolution.