Quite frankly, Obama needs to be "hung out to dry." He has decided that swimming with the "sharks" is easier than rescuing their victims. No modern President was given a better chance to expose GOP hypocrisy than Obama with the tax issue. He "stuck his toes in" and tested the waters with financial reform and his "choice" of advisers. He "waded" into the same waters when cutting backroom health care deals with the likes of Ben Nelson and Bart Stupak. Now, he's finally taken the "plunge." The really sad part is that he truly could have become the "Lincoln" of his time and "emancipated" the poor and middle class from the jaws of avarice. In a couple of years he'll be an ex-President with plenty of time on his hands. Maybe he'll take the time to pen a new book: "Hope Doesn't Float"