Analysis: Bipartisan deal, bipartisan opposition

The newly struck debt-ceiling compromise among President Barack Obama and the Republican leaders of Congress represents a historic accomplishment of separated government, with all the disappointment that implies for the the majority ardent partisans inside the two major parties and out.

But it marks an accomplishment nonetheless among a Democratic president elected in 2008 and the Republicans who, Obama memorably said, handed his party a "shellacking" at the polls two years shortly.

The tea party conservatives won't like it, regret it doesn't cut spending by more. "Someone has to say no, I will," Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota said in a declaration emailed from Iowa Sunday night, where she was court Republicans intended for her 2012 presidential bid.

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Republicans, heading for big gains, ready agenda

Republican leaders, ever more sure of their odds of winning control of the House and maybe even the Senate, have begun plotting a 2011 program top by a push for more than $100 billion in expenditure cuts, tax reductions and attempt to undo key parts of President Barack Obama's health care and financial rule laws.

The inquiry is how much of the GOP's government-shrinking, tax-cutting program to advance, and how fast.

It's definite that Republicans want to capitalize quickly on tea party-fueled antagonism and the subversive fervor that they suppose will provide momentum to accomplish an campaigner to-do list. It's equally clear, however, that the great prospect of a fed-up electorate and a crop of unruly newcomers could cause difficulties the plans. So could Obama and associate Democrats who will still be around after Tuesday's elections.

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