Chris Cillizza Thinks Pissing Off Liberals With Tax Cut Deal Made Obama 'Look Big'

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December 21, 2010 04:00 AM
Chris Cillizza Thinks Pissing Off Liberals With Tax Cut Deal Made Obama 'Look Big'

By Heather

http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/heather/chris-cillizza-thinks-pissing-liberals-tax



As Digby noted, apparently the hippie punching by Obama has the Villagers terribly excited... and losing 8% of liberals while gaining 5% of moderates adds up to a big "win" in the eyes of Chris Matthews and Chris Cillizza.

The New Compromise:

Whether or not it made Obama look "bigger" to the country is unknown. But hitting the left where it hurts certainly made him look like a big, big hero to the Villagers. And I feel quite confident that the White House knew that would happen. After all, it's not like it's an original tactic.

And as she also noted in that same post, the "gasbags" over at CNN were talking about Obama alienating his base as well and basically saying it didn't matter since they had no where else to go and I agree with her on this point.

I'd say he'd better worry just a teensy bit about liberals in the congress even if he agrees that liberals in the country can be taken for granted since "everyone" knows they have no choice but to vote for him anyway. Congresspeople have to be responsive to their constituents. And many of them represent that same liberal base. They might want very much to support the presidents long march to the right so that he can get all those moderates out there who allegedly want tax cuts for millionaires, but they may just start feeling the same kind of pressure from their liberal constituents that the conservatives face from the their Tea partiers (who for some reason, these gasbags never seem to think can be safely ignored.)

The Tea Party has shown that successful primaries against stalwart conservatives gives them power. Do the Villagers think the left didn't notice that? Do they think that the liberals in congress didn't notice it either?

She's right and even if the Obama administration thinks they can still win elections while ignoring their base, you can't say the same thing about the Congress. I hope to hell that no one who is as disgusted as I am about what's going on right now decides to sit it out during primary races. House races are the one place we have to push back that don't cost a fortune most of the time, although the Supreme Court just made that battle harder as well in some cases.