How Can That Be?

The House of Representatives passed a bill and sent it to the Senate extending the Payroll Tax Cut for one year, with House members staying in town to finish "the peoples business". The Senate chose to modify the bill extending the Payroll Tax Cut for only two months, then promptly adjourned for the year and all Senators left town.

Although the Senate had refused to accept the House version of the bill, when the House refused to accept the Senate version and called for a conference, the President and the media blamed the in-town Republicans in the House for playing politics and causing political gridlock, while the absentee Senate remained blameless.

How can that be?

Obama had asked for a one year extension of the Payroll Tax Cut. Congress passed a two month extension of the Payroll Tax Cut.

Yet the media tells us that in this gridlock fiasco, Obama came out the big winner.

How can that be?