Agreed, but that happened the day he decided to hire Geithner and Summers to continue the Bush economic agenda. It's only gone downhill since. When Obama repeats the Republican talking points on issue after issue after issue after issue after issue after issue, it's hard to control the debate. The more he cedes on the dialog to the GOP the worse it will get. This isn't meeting in the middle. It's meeting on the far right fringe and fueling the fire. Bloomberg:
George Soros, a billionaire hedge- fund manager who has donated millions to Democrats, said Democratic President Barack Obama “has lost control of the agenda” on the U.S. economy, leaving it “now in the hands of the Republican Party.”
Republicans “are going to pursue a very strong effort to cut services by refusing to have any tax increases,” Soros said in an interview with CNN’s “Fareed Zakaria GPS” program.
“This agenda will be successful,” though it will be “more directed at cutting services and achieving the ideological purposes of the Republicans rather than to get the economy going,” Soros, 80, said, according to a transcript of the interview released by CNN. “This will have a negative impact on the economy.”
