YOU CAN COUNT me as being among those who weren't happy about the cozy "deal" that President Obama handed the Republicans on the debt ceiling. He still doesn't accept Leo Durocher's warning that "nice guys don't win pennants." So the GOP stalwarts who remain servile to the outrageous agenda of the Tea Party anarchists - even if it means shutting down the government altogether - can be expected to crow for awhile. But the pundits who are already declaring Obama DOA in 2012 ought to be a little more prudent about their credibility.
With 15 months remaining before Election Day (an eternity, really) I will boldly offer my own prediction of what could happen:
Obama could win. Obama could lose. Nothing is set in stone today.
Until then, we will have to put up with the peacocks in our midst.