Obama's strategy for "winning !"

Iraq: Back in 2009, Joe Biden described Obama's "getting out of Iraq" as one of the greatest military victories in the history of this country. (Of course, we are not getting out of Iraq but, I suppose, Obama will continue to claim the victory, anyway).

Bush Tax Cuts: Obama swore to never allow for "tax cuts to the rich," and then, the truth leaked out - the Bush tax cuts equally benefited the middle; Obama caved to Mitch McConnell, allowed for all of the Bush tax cuts and then took full credit for the end result.

CR # 3 (that just happened): 40 billion dollars in cuts over the next six months; school vouchers; a limit to monies spent on abortion in the District of Columbia and cuts that will reduce our spending by $500 billion over the course of the coming decade -- all features originally opposed by the Democrats; all features embedded in the "deal" just completed on Friday evening . . . . and Obama takes credit for this deal. Understand this: the cuts that were approved on Friday were cuts to the proposed spending spree that we know as the Obama 2011 Fiscal Year. The GOP cut Obama and his Democrat lust for spending.

His strategy for winning in the arena of ideas? Wait for the Republicans to come up with something, order the media to devour their suggestions, cave in late on a Friday evening and then, take credit for end game. Saaaaaweeeeet !!

Look, one simply cannot wait for others to come up with ideas and then claim to be the leader in the ensuing negotiations. Before Paul Ryan (last week), the Dems were not talking about any serious cuts. They wanted us to believe that they hoped to cut $400 billion over the course of the coming decade with their "freeze" on discretionary spending. Ryan's budget changes this dynamic entirely.

Know this: Ryan did not get run out of town with the announcement of his budget and the cuts his budget embraces . . . . and he proposed cutting 6.5 trillion compared to Obama's 400 billion. Again, Ryan did not get tarred and feathered for proposing budgetary cuts that amount to 16 times that of the Democrat geniuses of the 111th congress (2009 - 2010).

As a result, Obama is more on the defensive than ever before. He cannot appeal to the "people" (as if he cares about the "people") and has allowed the GOP to take ownership of the national economic issue.

Will the young guns of the GOP be able to pull off "fiscal responsibility" or will the do-nothing Marxists in the Democrat Party succeed in convincing the American electorate that the Republicans are all about starving 6 million (or was that 3 million, Nancy) home-bound senior citizens, killingl 70,000 children, and laying the base for the uber rich to keep on getting richer (kind like what Obama and Biden and John Kerry and Bill and Hillary and that fat Michael Moore and the Kennedies, and Nancy Pelosi and Barabara Boxer and George Soros and Richard Trumka and Andy Sterns have done for their years in public service).

Time will tell, but hope is high that this time around, the GOP actually has a leadership collective that will not destroy the election hopes of the people the Grand Old Party represents.