Matt Yglesias makes a very interesting point about what the Republicans are doing -- no, have done -- to themselves. They've set a trap and walked straight into it.
What’s striking about the right is that on domestic and economic policy issues it’s formed a comprehensive set of ideological points from which there’s no escape.
Maybe the screaming and yelling we're hearing on the right has to do with their realization that the jaws have closed on their own legs. Did Obama anticipate this while the rest of us just didn't notice?
