Kyle Drennen makes a great point here. While I’m not a fan of any deal in which we allow more spending in return for everything staying status quo, it WAS a compromise. I understand politics is compromise (Obama didn’t understand that for the last two years prior to yesterday unfortunately) and both the GOP and Obama gave up some things in return for others. So where was the media in all this? Good question….Kyle answers:

Before the votes had even been cast in the midterm election, on ABC’s November 2 Good Morning America, former Bill Clinton advisor and co-host George Stephanopoulos worried: “[Republicans] have to make a choice, as well. Do they choose to cooperate with President Obama or stand firm on principle, which is going to guarantee gridlock?”

The next day on CBS’s Early Show, co-host Harry Smith asked newly reelected Nevada Senator Harry Reid about GOP stubbornness: “…the Republicans say over and over and over again for the last two months, no compromise, no compromise, no compromise.” That same day on NBC’s Today, co-host Matt Lauer asked former Nightly News anchor Tom Brokaw what presumptive Republican House Speaker John Boehner would do “when that hand [of compromise] comes out from President Obama.” Brokaw advised that Boehner would have to “deal with his own party…with the Tea Party folks who are coming in and saying, ‘We draw the line here, we’re not interested in compromise.’”

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Given the degree of media apprehension over the potential for congressional gridlock, one would think that President Obama’s announcement Monday evening of a deal on taxes would have been welcome news. However, on Sunday’s ABC World News, before the deal was even official, Washington editor Rick Klein lamented: “President Obama has been clear this was a critical position and he is caving on it, in allowing all the tax cuts to be extended.” Appearing on MSNBC’s Jansing & Co. on Tuesday, former CBS Evening News anchor Dan Rather expounded: “This is a political nightmare for Barack Obama as president. The more left portion of his party hates this, it hates it with a passion….he’s almost guaranteed, if this goes through, to have a serious challenge in a Democratic primary for president in 2012.”

Hmmmmm, we sure that Journolist got shut down? I’m betting there is another version of it somewhere on the web, probably sharing the same server as Assange. I mean you notice that the talking points by these talking heads were all the same and all going in the same direction? They were moaning and groaning about the coming lack of bipartisan compromise and NOW they are all angry that there was actual bipartisan compromise.

Ahhhh, the smell of Hypocrisy.

Apparently those in news media are in favor of compromise when they are pushing Republicans to abandon conservative principles but chagrined when Democrats put aside liberal orthodoxy in order to pass legislation.

As for the tax deal itself, it sucks. The deal would of been great if it had offset the spending on the unemployment benefits somewhere, somehow. But no. Instead we got more spending and no way to pay for it except add more to the ever increasing, staggering debt.

I blame both parties for this.

All these new Conservatives going to Washington better look at this deal long and hard and understand that if they push aside the core conservative principals, as this Congress did, they will find themselves thrown out of office in short order.

The MSM will continue their hypocrisy but that doesn’t mean the newly elected leaders should.