Absolutely stunning

What have we seen in the last few weeks? Absolutely bizarre behavior by our President. At one event, he dresses down the Republicans contemptuously for not approving of his policies and not being willing to work with the Democrats, even though they never ask for meetings and much of the important legislation has been behind closed doors. Then yesterday he pops out and says we cannot sustain the course we are on, even as aides lug the budget down the hallway on a 100 lb dolly and record deficits are being recorded. In addition, he says we'll cut the budget....next year. That's the way it's done! THIS year we'll have a 6% increase! But we can't spend like it's Monopoly money. Truly this is scary. Is the man undone? Now he's ripping on the very Republicans, who are so pitifully in the minority that they are powerless to do anything, for not working with him and being willing to take risks, as if his budget isn't a risk! What does he need them for anyway? COVER??

President Barack Obama branded Republicans on Tuesday as electoral opportunists more concerned about their own interests than the people's, taking a political risk by escalating criticism of the very lawmakers he's urging to work with him.

The newly combative approach is a double-edged sword for Obama.

Fearful of losses in the November congressional and gubernatorial elections, Democrats have been urging Obama to throw tougher punches at Republicans. Those calls grew louder after the Democrats' stunning loss two weeks ago of a Senate seat in Massachusetts, seen as an indictment of Democratic control over Congress and the White House.