The fat lady has not sung

I’m loving the President’s latest positions and speeches whereby he is making the right wing look like the crass, greedy, and hypocritical trolls they are.  Two simple examples:

First, after the President made the speech calling for the rich to pay taxes at a rate at least equal to the rate being paid by their secretaries and housekeepers, the right wing noise machine launched the “talking point of the week,” which was that Obama was engaging in “class warfare.”  This was  a ludicrous argument in view of the stark, undeniable fact that the right has been at war with the middle class for the last 30 years.  Even average citizens without a lot of political savvy were almost laughing at these cry-babies.   Hence, the word went out to abandon the class war talking point and move on to something else, as explained next.

Second, now they are blaming the President for taking extreme non-negotiable positions – “he’s taking his ball and going home before the game is finished,” etc.  This is even more ludicrous than the class warfare nonsense, in view of the fact that the Tea Party and the Speaker have said over and over that increased revenues/taxes are off the table, end of story!  And, that little twerp Eric Cantor actually walked out on the President in the debt ceiling blackmail episode.  Talk about taking your ball and going home. 

Once again, I think the President may be a lot smarter than I am.  While we were all on his back for trying to be reasonable and deal with the intransigent righties, he was laying the trap for them.  He had to keep the country from defaulting on the debt, but once he cleared that up until at least after the election, he was free to take the actions he has taken in the last few days.  The righties are now looking a lot like Captain Queeg (Humphrey Bogart) in “The Caine Mutiny” at his trial, melting down while rolling those steel balls around in his hand.

I think the Prez is fired up, and the cry-babies can’t handle it.