President Obama may have made a pitch for his re-election in 2012 this evening by striking a ‘framework’ for a deal with congress to extend Bush-era tax cuts.

The deal will, if agreed upon by congress, allow every American to keep the Bush-era tax cuts.

It just doesn’t seem like Bush bashing tonight from the Obama administration.  What happened?

Could it be that Obama is looking on the handwriting of Glenn Beck’s blackk board?

Obama outlined a deal with congressional leaders that would extend the expiring tax cuts for all Americans temporarily for two years.  Unemployment benefits for long-term jobless would go through next year.  The estate tax rate would be renewed at the previously lower rate temporarily.

The Obama administration proposes a one-year payroll tax reduction that would cut the amount contributed to Social Security from 6.2 percent to 4.2 percent.

“I have no doubt that everyone will find something in this compromise that they don’t like,” he said, but “we cannot play politics at a time when the American people are looking for us to solve problems.”

There was no tone of partisanship – it appears to be a new era of comedy in Washington.  There was a kind of angry thing going on.  No appeasing of the left, nor scolding of the left, although he obviously made the GOP the villians.

As one pundit put it on Fox News he was ‘not a happy warrior’ being a guy that was ‘made to eat spinach.’

There may very well be some left backlash.  But did he actually have a weak hand that he got a lot out of?

The move could possibly help Obama in 2012.

And isn’t that what it’s all about in politics?