Yes, it is the Democrats. Obama and they put Social Security and Medicare on the table for cuts, and in the 'Super Congress' it is Democrats who are proposing significant cuts to Medicare and Medicaid as an early offering. The panel's Democrats weakened their party’s negotiating position as Republicans, who have ceded no ground on their central anti-tax message, sat back and watched. "My fear is that this is déjà vu all over again,” said Rep. Peter Welch (D-Vt.), one of the dozens of liberals who thought the White House cornered itself in the summer debt-ceiling talks by floating similar entitlement cuts to the GOP in negotiations led by Vice President Biden. “This is essentially what happened in the Biden talks,” Welch said. “The Democrats were putting concrete proposals on the table [including entitlement cuts] and the Republicans never came forward with concrete revenues to match it. “The Democratic side was negotiating against itself,” Welch added. “As a strategy, that won’t work.” http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/10/28-1
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