Said Republican strategist John Feehery of GOP presidential candidates' guaranteed, stentorian negativity about any budget compromise reached:
They’ll all have to attack it. No matter what John Boehner does, he’ll be criticized by these folks because they’ve got to run against the political establishment, no matter what.
That's true, although I'd emend that part about "run[ning] against the political establishment" to "running against political reality"; and of course they do so because Republican primary voters dwell in an eerie nuthatch of unreality that may make my skin crawl but their presidential candidates smile, bow, and coddle and cater like Dr. Watson ready with the needle.
Anyway, Mr. Feehery was doing just fine in his political strategerizing, I thought, until he went and added this: "It all makes it very complicated."
He can't be serious. But, if he is, then Feehery knows not what "complicated" looks like. Unified string theory is complicated. Getting a handle on John Boehner's emotional instability is complicated. Good cheesecake is complicated. But standing before a herd of delusional wingnuts and denouncing the sanity of these Obama-influenced times is not complicated -- not for the Newtster, the Mittster, the Donald, the T-Pawer ...
Indeed, nothing could be simpler.