It reminded me of a group of school bullies who were being brought to terms by their principal. There was defiance for sure, but the majority of them looked like the jig was up for them and they were about to spend the rest of the year in detention.

Though I’m still deeply troubled by the lack of respect given to the office of the President by these supposedly intelligent, patriotic leaders, I can understand their frustration. For so many years the Republican party has stood their ground on purely partisan politics, using fear and misinformation to thwart Democratic liberalism. But now they’re up against a President who’s smarter than they are, totally dedicated to working for the people, and perhaps the best “roper-doper” since Mohamed Ali.

One has to wonder if Obama’s push to get a bill voted on before the August recess wasn’t a calculated maneuver to send the GOP into a frenzy, knowing full well it would nudge them into revealing all their dirty tricks throughout the recess. Let’s face it, they threw everything they had at it, but in the end, health care reform is still the most popular way to go according to the majority of Americans, and all the right-wingers managed to do was expose their lack of a plan and their unwillingness to participate like adults.

Politics is a bit like gambling, and our President seems to have an excellent poker face.

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