The automatic triggers were the starting line. Unless Congress advanced the President's own agenda (the triggers are his plan), it didn't matter if there was bipartisan approval. The President would simply reject it.

The Republicans never even met the starting line, as it was widely assumed they would not, because they aren't very good with numbers.

Now, however, the worm has turned, for if the Republicans want all that fat corporate military-industrial campaign cash, they've got to roll over for President Obama, in an election year.

That's the eleven-dimensional chess game none of those chumps believed they were playing. And now they've been ass-raped. I mean, "mated."