04-09-2013, 02:06 AM
Ted King wrote:
It was a bit risky on Obama's part to put the cuts to Social Security's budget in his overall budget, but I'm sure there were well thought out political motives for doing so. It seems plausible that one of those motives is that he can now anchor himself on the position that he has given on the holy grail of entitlements so it's time for the Republicans to give on their holy grail of no taxes increases. Staking out such a position probably won't make any difference to the Republicans in the House this year but it could give Obama a good "intransigent Republicans" card to play in the 2014 elections. I think he may be trying to gather up as many as those cards as he can.
Oh, that is the same crap he pulled for his entire first term. If he can't figure out that all that does is alienate his base, without making any new friends to make up for them, then I simply don't know what to say.