Negotiating with the Enemy

The same week in which he announced his intention to renege partially on eight decades of Democratic social policy, and to do so in the face of ongoing economic neurasthenia brought on by a whopping huge economic collapse, [Barack Obama went] out of his way to meet with the men whose recklessness and marginal criminality brought on the whopping huge economic collapse in the first place, so they will help him sell measures that will hurt the people who already are suffering from the effects of the whopping big recession these guys caused.

  Charlie Pierce

And he had the GOP to dinner, too....but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.