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David Frum, a regular vanilla Republican:

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.

I, myself, don't think this is happening. But maybe a little.

I think that all those trips to the White House are almost like a perp walk. They go in, they go out, they go back to the nutters and they tell the story and the nutters perform on queue. It makes the evening news. GoOPers say no again and raise the ante.

Now, he has taken the day off, held a news conference and they are baking in the oven over there. Stewing in their own juices.

Frum thinks that this started as an idea from Schumer who would like to see the Democrats use this as a wedge to break business interests off the Republicans and away from the Teas to go Democratic.

Labels: Administration Obama, republican whack jobs