Debt deal complicates liberals' support

Politico reports:

President Barack Obama's road to debt ceiling compromise runs right through the left wing of the Democratic Party.

Much of the focus Sunday centered on House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), who must wrestle conservatives into line to pass the deal before Tuesday's default deadline. Yet team Obama quickly found out it is confronting an equally daunting sales jobs with a Democratic base embittered by compromise, ditched policy priorities and what many liberals view as an endless series of Obama capitulations.

"If I were a Republican, this is a night to party," Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, a Missouri Democrat who chairs the Congressional Black Caucus, told MSNBC Sunday night.

If Obama thought he had problems with liberals before this, he'll have even more now, no matter how hard the White House spins it as a "victory for bipartisan compromise, for the economy and for the American people," as the administration's official talking points claimed.

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