Krugman admits it: Pres. Obama was right & he was wrong. (Good move, Paul)

[humbled_opinion]

22. All Right Now I am Completely Lost...

If this is such a cave by the right then why are the teabags at my job celebrating this move.... Here is their points...

1. Republicans will grant a short term debt ceiling increase and make a simple demand that Democrats in the Senate pass a budget. This apparently makes the GOP look like the more reasonable party, after all it is the Constitutional duty for the Senate to pass a budget and they haven't passed one since 2009 using the 2009 emergency spending levels as the normal.

2. Republicans start a campaign on tv talk radio about how the 2009 budget was a huge increase in spending that was necessary only because of the great recession, which after all Obama has assured us is in recovery, and so a reasonable demand it would seem would to go back to the 2008 spending levels.

3. The Senate budget would need some type of responsible spending cuts in order to pass both houses, the teabaggers suggest that even moderate Democrats would start to be onboard for cuts to SS and Medicare or reforming the programs because of out year unsustainability.

In other words the plan from the right it appears, is to make Democrats defend the spending levels and they gamble that seeing a nearly 4 trillion dollar budget on paper will turn the stomachs of Americans and make a rallying call for massive "entitlement" their word spending cuts.

How does this play to our advantage?
I need bullet points to counter the teabaggers claims.