"if Tea Party faction has convinced Obama to 'go along with a deal that ..gives them everything"

[Bluebear]

As efforts to avoid an unprecedented U.S. default entered crunch time Friday, President Obama faced growing tensions with senior congressional Democrats, who are angry at White House concessions to Republicans and at being left out of the talks....

But alarm was expressed most loudly Thursday by Democrats, who have complained about what they see as Obama's willingness to make concessions on social spending cuts. Democrats will also be unhappy if the president agrees to no immediate tax increases.

“It would concern me greatly if these folks — the Tea Party group — have been able to convince the president to go along with a deal that basically gives them everything they want but yet still takes away from those who are our most vulnerable," Rep. Elijah E. Cummings (Md.), a former chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, told The Washington Post.

"The people that I’m talking about, when you’re talking about Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security — and I’m sure they're all mixed up in there in this $3 trillion — those are people, a lot of whom are in my district, who have no alternatives," he told the Post. "They’re not the guys who own the planes; they’re not the ones who fly off to Paris for vacation."

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/43851666/ns/politics-capitol_hill/

[Fumesucker]

1. I wonder how much convincing it actually took?

And who was convincing whom?

[xchrom]

2. Recommend

[fasttense]

3. If Obama cuts Social Security and Medicare, he will destroy the Democratic party.

To have a Democratic President destroy or even reduce the New Deal programs will pit Democrat against Democrat and insure the RepubliCONS will win in 2012.

[Flubadubya]

5. "...will pit Democrat against Democrat "

Yeah, in the microcosm that is DU, just look... that is exactly what is happening, and will happen on the electoral stage. Of course, the Obamanuts will say the Rethuglicans won because we nut-job lefty liberals "didn't support the President".

Not only is that extremely offensive, but it's completely WRONG! :puke:

Obama alone will be responsible for that (oh, and of course, his minions who run lap-tonguedly after him and suck up to anything he does and says no matter what the consequences). :grr:

[no_hypocrisy]

4. What happened to Obama's "It may cost me the presidency" attitude?

[mazzarro]

6. I believe he was referring to the loss of his support on the left

Obama has decided that he will not bother about democratic party priorities any longer and that he is more in tune with fulfilling his DLC/Corporate agenda. So all these games he has been playing is to find ways to do what he had already conceded to do before hand - throw the ran-and-file democrats under the bus and nothing else.