I don't normally read...

...Charles Krauthammer -- you only need to read him once or twice and then you could write the rest -- but his column today is particularly good. Here's a taste:

Barack Obama won the great tax-cut showdown of 2010 -- and House Democrats don't have a clue that he did. In the deal struck this week, the president negotiated the biggest stimulus in American history, larger than his $814 billion 2009 stimulus package. It will pump a trillion borrowed Chinese dollars into the U. S. economy over the next two years -- which just happen to be the two years of the run-up to the next presidential election. This is a defeat?
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Obama is no fool. While getting Republicans to boost his own reelection chances, he gets them to make a mockery of their newfound, second-chance, post-Bush, Tea-Party, this-time-we're-serious persona of debt-averse fiscal responsibility.