Digby as usual, has a great post on Obama's continued signaling that he's willing to make significant cuts to a range US middle-class oriented programs. (Off course programs for the poor are also included in that, but to president's -- and Democrats in general's -- credit they no longer try to pretend that there are significant savings to be had there after the long years of neglect and retrenchment.) She's kept an eye on this thread that runs through this administration from the very beginning: of wanting to chart a new course by bringing America's finances into revenue balance by reigning in and cutting government services and rationalizing tax polices, and their frustration, sometimes emotional, at how much political capital they had to spend twisting Democrats arms, only to rebuffed and sometimes treacherously double-crossed by Republican bad faith in its negotiations.
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