....Is BHO on the verge of becoming the lamest of ducks? Jim Geraghty of NRO once again.
Earlier in the day at Red State, Dan McLaughlin wondered if Obama was on the verge of becoming "the Lamest Duck": "The obvious lesson, if the deal collapses, will be that Obama can't deliver anything -- he can be pushed into compromise with GOP priorities, as he wouldn't before the election, but he can't bring along his own caucus, which has suffered so many losses for following his lead. Liberals will learn that they are better off striking their own distance from an unpopular and increasingly impotent leader. And heavy liberal opposition to the deal will make it impossible to blame DeMint or Republicans for the collapse, and will encourage conservatives to push for even fewer compromises with Obama in 2011. That calculus of legislative forces will make it hard for Obama to plan for the other leg of the Clinton strategy, a budget battle in which the GOP blinks. Obama can try to use the whole mess to argue that 'Washington is broken' and all that, but it's a hard argument to make from the Rose Garden."
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