Obama: A Short Term Deal is Not Such a Bad Thing After All

So, he was bluffing as we all thought (from Daily Caller):

Obama looks up at debt ceiling, blinks -- Don't call Obama's bluff, or... his bluff will get called. TheDC's Neil Munro and Amanda Carey report: "White House spokesman Jay Carney opened the door today to a stopgap debt-ceiling measure. 'We believe a short-term extension absent an agreement to a larger deal is unacceptable,' Carney told reporters at Wednesday's press conference. 'If both sides agree to something concretely significant, we will support the measures needed to finalize the details,' he said, adding that 'there is still time to get something big done.' That’s a 180-degree turn away from President Barack Obama's July 11 statement rejecting a stopgap deal. 'I'm happy to consider all options, all alternatives that they're looking at,' Obama said in a White House press conference. 'The things that I will not consider are a 30-day or a 60-day or a 90-day or a 180-day temporary stopgap resolution to this problem. This is the United States of America, and we don't manage our affairs in three-month increments.'" Except when we do. Look, Obama said that a whole 10 days ago! Just because he says a particular thing doesn't mean you should take it literally. Let him be clear, as he's always said, make no mistake, etc. Apropos of nothing, Public Policy Polling now says: "Obama in perilous shape."Weird, huh? 

It's probably going to take a short term deal since the Gang of 6 (or Gang of Squish as Michelle Malkin calls them) deal hasn't even been written and scored, and the Senate won't pass the Cut, Cap and Balance bill, and if they did Obama would veto it because it contains ideas that would actually work.