The deficit commission that couldn't come to enough of a consensus to send an official report to Congress will apparently still play a role in the President's budget for next year and the State of the Union speech. That's straight from the Press Secretary's mouth, or fingers.
In a Twitter conference this morning, he was asked: "Will the President use SOTU to push recommendations of the Deficit Panel?" The reply:
There have been plenty of other proposals the administration could consider. There's the proposal by Rep. Jan Schakowsky, one of the many catfood commission members to reject its findings. There's also the fiscal blueprint developed by Demos, Economic Policy Institute, and the Century Foundation, which has excellent recommendations for growing our economy. Likewise, the Citizens' Commission on Jobs, Deficits and America's Economic Future, featuring some of the smartest progressive economists and analysts around, created a solid proposal for growing our economy.
But the one Gibbs is talking about is the one in which the chairman calls Americans paying into and receiving Social Security benefits millions of tit-suckers. That's the one that seems to count. Even though it failed.