Obama Gives in to Tea Party Terror

Tea Party is not so bad

You can't polish this laceration on the body politic. Some reactions:

• Ransom Paid - Reich
• Low end of the intolerable - Dayen
• What we wish Obama had said - Almond
• "Barack Obama, Comedian" - Krugman
• Obama creates 'tremendous fear' and 'panic' - Cramer
• Vote Down This Budget Surrender and Prevent the Suicide of the Democratic Project - Mogulescu
• Because the Bible Tells Me So: Why Bachmann and Tea Party Christians Oppose Raising the Debt Ceiling - Stan
• Obama's Capitulation to the Tea Party - Borosage
• Thanks a Lot, Asshole - Schwarz