Well, it begins. Obama is now planning on taking an axe to the sacred Democratic program of Social Security. Now that he got his way on the tax cuts, he's going after Social Security.
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-placed sources, in the president’s State of the Union address.
The plan is to appease incoming budget chairman Paul Ryan:
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.
http://dyn.politico.com/...
If these reports are true, we need to RUN not walk to find a serious primary challenge to this cynical and completely destructive President.
Two years of this crap from Barack Obama makes me actually miss George W. Bush. At least George W. Bush had no chance to pass his Social Security cuts. Now that a Democratic President is proposing them, he will likely get Democratic support and finally take an axe to the program that we have been trying to protect for so long.
Barack Obama is probably the worst President I have ever had to live through. His general auro of weakness and pleasure in pissing on the Democratic base has been simply disgusting.
Shame on all of us for not listening to Hillary Clinton in 2008 when she warned that Obama was a poor fit for the White House because he is.
Not only has he destroyed the Democratic party, now he is destroying a sacred Democratic progam.
Its time to draft either Russ Feingold or Howard Dean to challenge Obama in 2012. Of course, many people here will say that "there will be no primary challenge". Well, that attitude could well cost us sacred Democratic programs like Social Security.
He needs to be stopped.