It's all over the intertubes today that Mark Halperin called Obama a "dick" on Morning Joe and so now everyone's calling for some sort of punishment for him.
But you know what? I want Obama to be a "dick."
'Cause the GOP has been nothing but dicks to him ever since he ran for President and it's time for them to get a taste of their own "dick" medicine.
The GOP is clearly acts like bullies and what they call "negotiation" isn't negotiating at all but rather straight up bullying.
Here's a graph that Ezra Klein came up with today:
This was the Republican standard for declaring "Victory" in the debt reduction fight, a 85:15 ratio between spending cuts and tax increases. And by any objective sort of standard, it certainly is an overwhelming victory due to the ineptitude of Democrats to similarly push for an 15:85 ratio in the other direction to end up somewhere close to a 50:50 split.
So Obama offers them 83:17 with the 17% being made up of closing loopholes that affect corporate jet owners and the like.
And the Republicans respond by...blowing up the talks and demanding a 100:0 ratio. As Ezra Klein writes, "How do you negotiate with that?"
It's a goddamn good question and it's about time people in the media started asking it.
Because you can't.
In closing, the only thing dicks understand is someone being a dick back to them.