Obama winning...thus on verge of surrender

New public opinion surveys show that Democrats and Obama are starting to win the debt ceiling debate. (Or is it merely that Republicans are losing it?)

Either way, momentum has shifted to the President, which is why, in inimitable Obama fashion he is now much more likely to cut a deal with his reeling opponents - a deal that will no doubt be very favorable to Republicans and their fat cat base at the expense of significant cuts to government programs that aid the poor and elderly.

All of which raises the question. Is Obama a crypto-conservative, or just an incompetent negotiator?