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In reply to the discussion: Obama Called Their Bluff: Republicans Admit They Are Too Scared to Cut Social Security [View all]TekGryphon
(430 posts)Wait, no I don't.
If Obama wanted Chained CPI he would have called Boehner and then shut his mount and never mentioned C-CPI until it was put in the budget during the backroom negotiation.
Instead he put C-CPI into his very public and purely symbolic budget proposal, clearly labels it as a regretful compromise to Boehner's obstinate Republicans, assures the public that the administration is looking to mitigate damages from this awful plan with protections, and then sat back and watched as C-CPI, now on the front stage for the first time, got ripped to shreds.
And people are actually stupid enough to think that this was Obama's way of supporting C-CPI, despite 5 years of championing benefits to seniors, veterans, the sick and disabled, and the unemployed.
Absolutely ridiculous. I don't feel sorry for them at all. Takes a willful obliviousness to current events to come away from this seeing anything other than a brilliant outcome to a simple maneuvering.