SHOCKINGLY, THIS DIDN’T WORK: “President Obama offered Speaker Boehner the president’s own budget outline and called it a compromise.”
UPDATE: In his own mind, he’s the only reasonable person: “It also was a rewrite of history. A completely irresponsible president who just months ago proposed a budget with devastating deficits, repeatedly demanded that the deficits and debt be dealt with now, without any delay. Where has he been for two years? . . . It was a good press conference, for Obama, because he was largely unchallenged, and was permitted to frame the issue for the 2012 campaign. In other words, Obama was able to deal with his own failures without acknowledging any of those failures.”
ANOTHER UPDATE: Boston Globe: Spin Meter: Obama, Dems skirt issue on tax hikes.
MORE STILL: Rob Long emails: “I didn’t see the press conference because I’m working… was the President wearing a cardigan sweater when he told us we need to eat our peas?” Only metaphorically.
And Charles Austin writes: “I’m visualizing whirled peas.”