Compendium of liberal reaction to announced spending freeze

[Irish_shark]

Digby: ""Combined with the deficit fetishism, it will tie his (Obama's) hands at the time he needs the most flexibility on jobs --- and further destroy liberalism in the process." http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/all-things-to-all-people-by-digby-its.html

Maddow: " "I have to tell you, it sounds completely, completely insane. <...> it's usually on day two of 
like a 101 level college econ class where they teach you that a spending 
freeze is not the way to bring the economy out of a downturn, let alone a 
recession." http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/#35069615

Kevin Drum of MotherJones: "a panicky and transparent attempt to recover from the Massachusetts tsunami." http://motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2010/01/pivot-watch

Nate Silver: "a mistake on par with John McCain's 'suspending my campaign' gaffe." Silver denounces the politics, which he says will look duplicitous." http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2010/01/white-houses-brain-freeze.html

Matthew Yglesias: "Suffice it to say that I'm very skeptical of this approach." http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/archives/2010/01/obama-budget-to-call-for-freeze-in-non-security-discretionary-spending.php

Brad Delong: ""a perfect example of fundamental unseriousness" http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2010/01/barack-herbert-hoover-obama.html

Krugman: "appalling": http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/26/obama-liquidates-himself/?pagewanted=print

Read it all here: http://www.theatlanticwire.com/opinions/view/opinion/Liberals-Agree-Obamas-Spending-Freeze-Just-Awful-2301

[Democrats_win]

1. Instead of being more progressive he became more batsh*t Republican.

Democrats recognize a fraud when they see one. Good-bye Obama, don't seek a second term.

[DURHAM D]

2. Maybe Obama plans to change registration to Republican (his true party)

and run against the White House in 2012.

[avaistheone1]

3. This is what bipartisanship will do for you in an era of batshit crazy republicans.

[DURHAM D]

4. You can't blame Republicans for the current state of the failed Dem party. nt