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Your Abbreviated Pundit Round-up
Daily Kos — ... that matters. James Morone: Bipartisanship is over-rated, historically. Maureen Dowd: What's with Cheney? even Bush has had enough of him. The clearest sign of disaffection we have is Bush’s refusal to pardon Scooter Libby, the man known as "Cheney’s Cheney," despite Vice’s tense and emotional pleading. It was his final, too little, too late "You are not the boss of me" spurning of Dick Cheney. Ruth Marcus: The party of No? Thanks, but no thanks. In one particularly ...

Boys in the bubble
Balloon Juice — ... the nation’s desire, the topic to which those slippery presidential spokesmen need always to be dragged back. When last week’s passage of the gigantic stimulus package is judged in this light, only one verdict is possible: Obama failed to deliver. He talked big about reaching out to Republicans, and yet he received only three votes from them in the Senate, and none in the House. Yes, the bill passed, but what a disaster! Right on cue here’s some punditizing complete with one of our favorite lines: ...

Barack Obama Meets The Minimum Winning Coalition
Matthew Yglesias — ... Ruth Marcus writes: “It would have been hard to predict, as the stimulus debate began, that President Obama would end up losing more Democratic votes than gaining Republican ones.” ...

No one could've predicted...
Daily Kos — Ruth Marcus: It would have been hard to predict, as the stimulus debate began, that President Obama would end up losing more Democratic votes than gaining Republican ones. More than twice as many, actually: Seven House Democrats voted against the measure, three Senate Republicans for it. Actually, it wasn't hard to predict at all. I wasn't alone in pointing out that there was no reason for Republicans to vote for this legislation -- if it works, Obama would get all the credit, and if it doesn't, whoever voted for it would get the ...

Looks Like Arnold Schwarzenegger Isn't Being Invited To CPAC, The Extreme Right's Big Annual Powwow
DownWithTyranny! — ... Perhaps instead of a forward-looking strategy they can just cheer themselves up a little in preparation for the disaster that awaits them in 2010 when voters let them know what they think of obstructionism. They could probably start with a hissing session for-- in absentia, of course-- California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, the elected GOP politician with the most constituents anywhere in America. And do they ...

Obama’s Second Verse: Same As The First
Patterico's Pontifications — ... pushed the “Party of ‘No’” line with respect to their party’s massive spending package in January.  The same spin turns up time and ...