And we already see the Left seeking to portray the Right as
unAmerican...

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/e9049900-0692-11de-ab0f-000077b07658.html?nclick_check=1

>>> On one hand, I admire much of what the budget says. On the other, I feel I 
>>> owe Republicans an apology.

As you recall, in the debate over the fiscal stimulus, Republicans
accused the president of presenting a measure they could not support,
disguising this with an empty show of co-operation. Bipartisanship,
they said, is more than inviting your opponents round for coffee and a
chat. I did not buy it: I accused them, in effect, of brainless
rejectionism and a refusal to compromise, and congratulated the
president for trying to come to terms with the other side.

This budget says the Republicans had Mr Obama right all along. The
draft contains no trace of compromise. It makes no gesture, however
small, however costless to its larger agenda, of a bipartisan approach
to the great questions it addresses. It is a liberal’s dream of a new
New Deal.
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