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Obama to blink first on Social Security
By: Robert Kuttner
The tax deal negotiated by President Barack Obama and Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky is just the first part of a multistage drama that is likely to further divide and weaken Democrats.Did Democratic voters put Obama into office to cut deals with Republican
The second part, now being teed up by the White House and key Senate Democrats, is a scheme for the president to embrace much of the Bowles-Simpson plan — including cuts in Social Security. This is to be unveiled, according to well-place d sources, in the president’ s State of the Union address.
The idea is to pre-empt an even more draconian set of budget cuts likely to be proposed by the incoming House Budget Committee chairman, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), as a condition of extending the debt ceiling. This is expected to hit in April.
White House strategists believe this can also give Obama “credit” for getting serious about deficit reduction — now more urgent with the nearly $900 billion increase in the deficit via the tax cut deal.
How to put this politely? For a Democratic president, this approach is bad economics and worse politics.
A caller on CSpan last month asked Richard Wolffe (out plugging his latest book written from his special access to the Obama White House) if we're ever going to get a public option to keep healthcare costs down.
Wolffe made it clear that Obama and the DLC-contro
Not only did Obama campaign on "a public option", he campaigned on single payer, universal health care.
Here's a campaign ad featuring Obama himself. See the part where he says he has a plan to "cover everyone'? That's 'universal coverage'. There's even a graphic in the ad that says "The Obama Plan - UNIVERSAL coverage for all Americans"
Obama ran against mandates, and criticized Hillary for them in her campaign promises. Here is Candidate Obama on mandates.
Here again -- Obama campaigned on public option.
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Obama to blink first on Social Security
By: Robert Kuttner
The tax deal negotiated by President Barack Obama and Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky is just the first part of a multistage drama that is likely to further divide and weaken Democrats.Did Democratic voters put Obama into office to cut deals with Republican
The second part, now being teed up by the White House and key Senate Democrats, is a scheme for the president to embrace much of the Bowles-Simpson plan — including cuts in Social Security. This is to be unveiled, according to well-place d sources, in the president’ s State of the Union address.
The idea is to pre-empt an even more draconian set of budget cuts likely to be proposed by the incoming House Budget Committee chairman, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), as a condition of extending the debt ceiling. This is expected to hit in April.
White House strategists believe this can also give Obama “credit” for getting serious about deficit reduction — now more urgent with the nearly $900 billion increase in the deficit via the tax cut deal.
How to put this politely? For a Democratic president, this approach is bad economics and worse politics.
No, this was the following night, when O'Donnell invited Grayson back and did a very public mea culpa and apologized to Grayson for acting like a horse's @$$.
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This is SOP for Obama. When he can't kick the can down the road any farther, he builds another playing field to kick it down.
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