Well, frankly I've seen the exact opposite, mass uproar over spending and (to a lesser degree since it is targeted at the rich) raising taxes. I can't really verify what you have or haven't seen, so we will just agree to disagree on the media coverage.
The only really way to verify the public reaction is to just wait and see.
Fortunately, Obama is working with Russia much more than Bush did. He's more or less offered to not build the much reviled missle defense system if Russia puts pressure on Iran. Essentially he told them, if Iran doesn't get nuclear weapons, then we don't really need the missle defense system (which personally I think is a questionable investment anyways since many experts think it won't even work).
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
