2 BI-PARTISAN COMPROMISE PLANS THAT OBAMA HAS IGNORED COULD HAVE SOLVED MANY OF AMERICA'S PROBLEMS - AND WHAT THAT TELLS US ABOUT OBAMA

IF OBAMA REALLY WAS A POST-PARTISAN LEADER THAN HE MIGHT HAVE SUPPORTED SIMPSON-BOWLES PROPOSAL - FROM THE COMMISSION HE CREATED - AND THE RECENT WYDEN-RYAN PLAN.

NEITHER IS PERFECT, BUT - GIVEN THE CURRENT SPLIT POWER IN DC - THEY'RE PROBABLY - WITH A LITTLE MODIFICATION - THE BEST WE COULD HAVE HOPED FOR.

BUT OBAMA IS MORE INTERESTED IN DIVIDING THE ELECTORATE AND EVEN PLAYING CLASS WARFARE IN ORDER TO GET REELECTED THAN IN BEING A LEADER AND A STATESMAN.

THIS IS WHAT I ALWAYS EXPECTED FROM OBAMA BECAUSE NOTHING IN HIS ENTIRE LIFE LED ME TO BELIEVE HE WAS ANYTHING BUT A LEFT-WING AGITATOR IN SHEEP'S CLOTHING.

NOW I AM PRAYING CONSERVATIVES KEEP THE HOUSE AND WIN THE SENATE.

AND WITH MITT IN THE WHITE HOUSE WE WILL PASS EVEN BETTER DEBT AND HEALTHCARE REFORM BILLS.

WHAT PUSSLES ME IS THIS: AFTER THE TROUNCING OBAMA TOOK IN THE 2010 ELECTION - AND DURING THE LAME DUCK SESSION - OBAMA COMPROMISED ON A FEW KEY POSITIONS AND PASSED SOME BIG LEGISLATION AND WENT UP IN THE POLLS.

THEN, AFTER THE NEW CONGRESS WAS SWORN IN, HE BECAME AN OUT-AND-OUT LEFT-WING PARTISAN.

I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY HE AND AXELROD AND PLOUFFE AND SOROS AND STERN DECIDED TO GO THIS ROUTE, WHEN THE CENTRIST ROUTE WAS HELPING THE NATION AND OBAMA'S POPULARITY.

MY GUESS IS THIS:

THEY BELIEVE THAT EITHER THE ECONOMY TURNS-AROUND OR IT DOESN'T - BUT THAT  - (BECAUSE THEY FEEL IT'S MOSTLY INFLUENCED BY THINGS OUT OF THEIR CONTROL, LIKE EUROPE AND CHINA AND IRAN) - IT'S OUT OF THEIR HANDS.

AND THEREFORE, IF THE ECONOMY TURNS-AROUND, THEN THIS GUARANTEES OBAMA'S REELECTION. - SO THEY CAN IMPOSE AS MUCH LEFTIST "TRANSFORMATION" CRAP AS THEY CAN WITHOUT WORRYING ABOUT HOW IT PLAYS IN THE POLLS....

AND IF THE ECONOMY DOESN'T TURNAROUND, THEN THIS GUARANTEES OBAMA'S LOSS - SO THEY MIGHT AS WELL IMPOSE AS MUCH LEFTIST "TRANSFORMATION" AS THEY CAN WHILE THEY CAN AND AS FAST AS THEY CAN.

SINCE THEY CARE MOST ABOUT "TRANSFORMING " AMERICA INTO A EURO-SOCIALIST STATE - AND NOT REELECTION OR HOLDING THE SENATE - THIS WAS AN EASY DECISION FOR THEM IN FEBRUARY 2011.

AND THEY'VE BEEN DRAGGING US DOWN THE ROAD TO SERFDOM EVER SINCE.

THIS IS WHY THEY HANDLED THE DEBT-CEILING THE WAY THEY DID AND THE PAYROLL TAX CUT EXTENSION - AND ALSO WHY THEY ARE MORE AND MORE OPENLY TURNING AGAINST ISRAEL AND FOR THEIR LONGTIME PALESTINIAN ALLIES:

EITHER IT'S NOW OR NEVER OR NOW AND FOREVER.