“Everyone simply assumes that the tax cuts were inserted to attract Republican votes. But there’s really no evidence of that, is there? None whatsoever. We assume they were inserted for that reason, because we assume that no one on the Democratic side of things believes they have any place in a stimulus bill. Nobody, including Obama.”

Once again, if instead of assuming, you’ve been paying attention at all, then Obama’s lip service liberalism and centrist (meaning ruling class, status quo) cabinet appointments and policy making should come as no surprise.

“If all of this is an accident, then the people who argue that Obama is a genius find themselves looking like morons. And if this is part of some grand scheme to turn the country liberal, then the people who are arguing that Obama is playing some kind of three dimensional chess should let me in on the secret. Because otherwise, The Razor is in play, and Occam says Obama put his team in place to make sure the status stayed quo. And given the weight of the actual evidence — and the dearth of reasons to continue arguing that Obama’s at all progressive — isn’t it time to own up to reality?”

So, unless you can stomach mopping up gray matter when my head explodes, please don’t accuse me of just having a negative attitude.