As TPM’s Evan McMorris-Santoro reports, progressive groups are hopping mad over the proposals leaking out on the debt deal’s final contours.

To judge from TPM’s inbox that fury is not isolated. Indeed, there seems to be a certain buyer’s remorse from some Democrats who backed President Obama in the 2008 primaries.

For instance, AF writes: “I am angry at myself for supporting Obama over Hillary Clinton. She knows how Republicans behave and she was no wimp.”

Other readers have been fantasizing about Clinton giving Obama a primary challenge in 2012.

So what do you think? Would Clinton have handled this better? As ever, feel free to use the link at the top right to send us your views.

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Nothing’s over until it’s over. Surely that’s a truism the last few weeks have proven over and over again.

That being said, the contours of a compromise deal to break D.C.’s deadlock, and increase the debt ceiling, are now coming into focus.

Brian Beutler’s got our story.