MICKEY KAUS: Is The Boehner Plan Obama’s Briar Patch?

UPDATE: Obama’s Poll Numbers Crumbling In Battleground States. “The race for president isn’t a national contest. It’s a state-by-state battle to cobble an electoral vote majority. So while the national polls are useful in gauging the president’s popularity, the more instructive numbers are those from the battlegrounds. Those polls are even more ominous for the president: In every reputable battleground state poll conducted over the past month, Obama’s support is weak. . . . Obama’s performance so far on the debt-ceiling debate hasn’t improved his standing, either. Pundits may have graded the president a winner in the battle, but it wasn’t long ago that the White House was demanding a clean debt-ceiling increase from congressional Republicans. Now, it appears that whatever deal ends up being struck will be much closer to the GOP’s terms, with the president looking less consequential in the whole process.”

This is making a primary challenge seem more likely.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Watch out, Mickey, or people will call you racist for that analogy. The charge of racism has lost its sting, through overuse. Once simply opposing the President on policy makes you a racist, who cares?