Now even his base is noticing

At today's press conference, president Obama once again failed to put forward a plan that would resolve the debt ceiling issue. Instead, he said he would consider any plan that Congress brought to him and then he would make hard choices. To the question of naming even one modification to entitlements that he would accept, Obama ducked. In other words, Obama has no plan; he has no position that he will announce publicly; and he is playing this for political gain rather than trying to resolve the issue. Normally, after a press conference like this, there would be articles about how reasonable Obama was, how open to compromise-- you know, he is the adult in the room while the GOP are all children. (I do not know about Reid and Pelosi -- maybe they are teens in this analogy.) Today, however, Obama's performance was so unreasonable in the face of the crisis that even his base is starting to notice. In a column in the Atlantic, this was the topic sentence: "Obama is right that Congress needs to behave more responsibly and start doing its job. But so does he."

That's right, the Atlantic is taking Obama to task for failing to put forth a plan of his own, for failing to tell the American people even one modification that he would accept to entitlements, and for failing to do his job. If the Atlantic is noticing, then the entire liberal media establishment must see it as well. After all, it was a question from the ABC reporter which Obama ducked when he double-talked on naming one change to entitlements that he could accept.

Then you have from the Washington Post a column about how Obama is becoming irrelevant to the discussions. True, it comes from Jennifer Rubin who is no liberal, but it is the WaPo nonetheless. Rubin reports that the White House talks have totally collapsed and that Congress is ignoring Obama's deadline of reaching a deal in the next day or so. Instead, there are efforts by senators and congressmen to take the McConnell plan, graft onto it the cuts ageed to in the Biden talksas well as a commission. The commission would be made up of senators and congressmen, and they would propose cuts which would then be voted either up or down in a block. IF they were voted down, there would be no debt ceiling increase. Obviously, htese talks are in flux, but the key is that they are going ahead without Obama's involvement.

It is strange to see a crisis like this where the president of the United States is being left out of the mix. Sure, he is there on the sidelines posturing and huffing and puffing. But for once, it appears that the truth is coming out: the real adults in the room are at the Capitol not the White House. Indeed, if the congress presents this plan to Obama, there is not a chance in the world that he will veto it. That would take courage. Enough said.