The arsonist and the fire fighter | Michael Tomasky

Andrew Sullivan makes an excellent argument (I know it's excellent because I've made it myself) and concludes it with a boffo line:

But [the Tories:] are doing what Obama should, in my view, have done from the start: relentlessly remind people of what the GOP did to this country. Obama allowed the hacks on the right to pivot immediately to pinning the entire deficit and debt on Obama - and, amplified by the FNC, they have somehow managed to turn the debate back into the exhausted...