The really good news is that this advice comes to Obama from Senate Democrats, who just lost a bunch of seats in 2010 and are likely to lose a bunch more in November.

And they're too irresonsible to pass a budget.

So we definitely encourage President Obama to take their advice, and opt for yet another campaign strategy which, at face value, will almost certainly fail.

Because Obama can't paint Romney as a right-wing extremist and a flip-flopper at the same time.

If he tries that, then Obama looks like a flip-flopper.