Will Debt Crisis Wedge GOP Away From its Business Base?
Is Obama intentionally trying to make the Republicans appear maximally reckless and irresponsible?
Isn't it conceivable that Obama's real end-game in these budget talks is to destroy Republican presidential fundraising for 2012 by goading congressional Republicans in 2011 into appearing maximally reckless and irresponsible?
If so, you have to say: the plan's working brilliantly.
UPDATE: Four months late, my intuition tracks with what Dems had in mind all along, or so I read in Greg Sargent's blog.