What can you say about a Democratic President who finally publicly acknowledges that when it comes to the economy and fiscal issues, in general—you know, those little issues that were foremost in American voters’ minds in 2008, 2010, and again this year—he’s more of an old school, “moderate Republican?”

As Bruce Bartlett (who just did an outstanding job over at Moyers & Co., along with Naked Capitalism’s Yves Smith, explaining everything any self-respecting, old school Democrat needs to know about the fiscal cliff), a former senior policy analyst in the Reagan White House and deputy assistant secretary for economic policy at the Treasury Department during the George H.W. Bush administration notes, farther down below, one really doesn’t have to say too much when President Obama does such a great job of explaining it to us, in his own words…