Excellent! He is a formidable opponent.

Via sports participation long ago, I learned one underestimates one's opponents at one's own peril.

As always, the brilliant Dr. Krauthammer is spot-on.

God Bless and Save our Republic !!

Too much is made of Obama's prowess and his being smart. He is neither. He's simply a radical socialist with big money backing him at every step and misstep. I don't think that the people will be fooled twice as we've heard his meaningless rhetoric too often. The election to remove him can't approach quick enough.

It's the power behind soetoro that you should be most worried about. This is a very well-designed plan unfolding.

Nearly ten years after 9/11, we have a $14T plus deficit, a rapidly shrinking dollar, record welfare and unemployment, toleration if not amnesty rather than prosecution and deportation of tens of millions of illegal aliens masquerading as citizens and actively voting in our elections, union controls on politics and businesses, mass elimination of US jobs, the sending of millions more jobs to China, encroachments of the Taliban's sharia law into our run-amok courts under the guise of "religious freedom" and repeated suspension of our civil liberties by an increasingly communist government.

Who said those 19 hijackers back on that September didn't win not just their battle but their entire war? Or is it that you just don't recognize either the enemy or America's defeat?

I am on JTG side, Obama would have been much better off if he didn't then turn around and blast everyone for 'making' him compromise. Most American's realize he only compromised because he had to, not because he wanted to.

Unless he changes his tone and demeanor, and really becomes bi-partisan, he's done in 2012 - I certainly will not be beating a penny on his reelection.

Once again, Krauthammer comes across as a closet liberal, heaping praise on the buffoon in the White House and predicting his reelection, saying he has moved to the center. He's nowhere near the center, and if CK can't figure that out, he's as stupid as Obama. CK always comes across as condescending, just as do most liberals. The Republicans should have run away from this bill, but they have learned nothing from years of losing the shell game to the Democrats. Clinton is, was, and always will be a draft-dodging communist. He's rich now, but he's still south Arkansas white trash.

Pah, Charles!! You give him way too much credit. I agree that you should "keep your friends close and your enemies closer," in order not to underestimate them. However, BO made it very clear both in words and expression that he was accepting the tax bill under duress - I simply do not believe this cretin will ever go center as Bill "The Adulterer" Clinton did. I think it would make him physically sick to attempt to do so. And so, hopefully, the independents and others who voted for him in 2008 will see through any charade he puts up at this point. I think BO is going to have some competition in his own camp for 2012, namely HRH Hillary.

There seem to me to be very

few facts, at least ascertainable

facts, in politics.---Sir Robert Peel

(1778-1850)

I agree with some of your response commentators, that if President Obama was truly going to move to the center, he would not have called Republicans " hostage takers". This is no way to get bipartisanship, nor truly an indication he fells any other way than he did before he refused to "compromise". He only tried to make this deal because he saw the writing on the wall, come January. Plus, there was no admission he and his Democratic, or something else I won't say here, no growth policies had failed all Americans! Not to mention his lack of TRANSPARENCY repeatedly, which he seems to think if he says he wants, Americans are STUPID enough to fall for. Just look at the Mexican-American border violence, killing now on the American side, doing zero about that; all of Eric Holder's not fighting the terrorists,as well as President Obama's refusal to even call them Terrorists. Sorry, Dr. Krauthamer, you're wrong on this one.Former President Clinton really did move to the middle, unlike this President.

Obama will lose part of his base.

He lost me.

My interpretation of what Charles K. said is pretty much a slam on the Republicans. And he is right the Republicans really lost out, no acually the American people lost out. The article is a breakdown of how obama is trying to get reelected and he is on the way to doing it. Charles K. doesn't strike me as liberal with this article or has he in the past, he is just laying out the facts as they happened and will likely happen. Hopefully the We the people of the United States will not only oust obama and the liberals but also the old guard of the Replublican party. The tax bill was a loss for the American People because the Republicans gave away to much, way to much and are spinning it as a win. The Republicans got the status quo and gave up a lot more than they got. Basically the American People have what they had last year except for the fact of a 2% decrease in payroll taxes. For those who think I am a liberal I cannot change your thinking, but for the record I am a Conservative Independent. I have never believed a word of what the liberals said especially barry obama. As in 2006 when I first started hearing about b.o. I thought of him as a lying cheat and my thoughts have only grown stronger with each passing year. If we can't change the present old guard replublicans then we will again have to suffer another 4 years of b.o. and his country destroying policys. Just my .5 cents David Ross concerned citizen

If Obama is on a "comeback" it is because of gutless Republicans unwilling to fight. It was the spending that was the issue that gave them back their bravado that they so quickly blew off. Only a RHINO would have thought this a great deal. Shows we still have much work to do. As Rush has said we still have the same Republican leadership that we had during Bush. And we know how that turned out.

"I don't think that the people will be fooled twice as we've heard his meaningless rhetoric too often." -- JTG

Sadly, our elected Republican Senators and Congressmen have repeatedly shown that they can be fooled over and over again...

Obama may be fool, but don't underestimate him. The Republicans need to get a solid leader that can bring the party together. Romney's viewed as an elitist, Palin scares people, McCain's too old, Huckabee is a loser, so who do we have that can galvanize the right and middle? The RNC needs to get rid of Steele, and get somebody that can think strategically on this most important issue.

"Despite this, some on the right are gloating that Obama had been maneuvered into forfeiting his liberal base. Nonsense. He will never lose his base." It's not nonsense.They can stay home or vote for a third party candidate - just like the GOP base does when we are handed a RINO squish to vote for in the primaries or general election. Nowhere to go, my foot. Krauthammer is wrong yet again - and even if he's right, all it means is that the establishment Republicans in the lame-duck Congress are exactly the kind of spineless weenies that the voters endeavored to eject in the last election. It doesn't say anything about Obama's newfound centrism or ability to woo opponents. Good riddance to this sort of "compromise." It's time to hold the line against more government spending or further erosion of our liberties and values.

I love reading these articles because they're short but ifonratmive.