We warned you Speaker Boehner

I don't necessarily agree with p m carpenter's take on the grand bargain. But if you do, then this is a logical conclusion.

I trust the professional left, progressive activists, online doomsayers and cable thunderers will now graciously retract their riveting denunciations of Obama's negotiating skills.

It's true that Obama's larger compromise gamble was riddled with peril -- there was always the slim, and grim, chance that House Republicans would smile and bellow a big "Thanks!" -- but he weighed the odds and bet that the GOP would resist the internal sin of ideological impiety.

He bet right. And that's all that counts.

We warned you Speaker Boehner, you really don't want to play poker with this guy.