How gross is the cheap political gamesmanship that the president has slipped into in order to win on the budget issue rather than lead on a national crisis? Alex Castellanos laid it out on Meet the Press Sunday about as succinctly as anyone I've heard.

The candidate of hope and change has become this divisive populist who is pitting rich against poor, Republican against Democrat, red against blue. Remember the speech there was one America - no red no blue? Whatever happened to that guy?