Translation of Obama Press Conference: At 11am tommorrow, he will cave in to all demands.

[grahamhgreen]

He will offer more cuts to Social Security (that adds NOTHING to the debt) and Medicare (that simply needs to be able to negotiate drug prices) than was recommended by the Cat Food Commission.

Today's little press conference simply was a bit of hard core PR merchandising to get you to buy into the fiction that this was the best he could do. It's meant to make you feel sorry for him. It's a teaser to make it easier for you to take the bad news tomorrow; To try to make you happy that any deal was reached.

That's my take.

We'll see if I'm right.


OTOH, all he has to do to get the repubs to raise the debt limit is threaten, as Commander-in-Cheif to bring the troops home and slash the military budget by 2/3's if we go into default. They will pass it in a heart beat rather than lose their killing-for-cash machine.

[leveymg]

1. If he wants to be a One-Term President, he should at least do it as a Democrat.

If he makes one cut to SS/Medicare/aid he won't be reelected next year.

[indepat]

14. Can assure no one party to cutting SS, Medicare, and/or Medicaid will get my vote and almost

assure my eight progeny of voting age will follow suit. :patriot:

[emulatorloo]

2. Your translator needs new batteries.

That's your perspective of course, and you are entitled to it.

[bowens43]

4. oh come on

the man has caved on every issue...caving is the only thing he does.

[emulatorloo]

7. I saw the press conference, I came away with a different perspective

Obama pretty much laid out how radical the House is, how Boehner has lost control of them, how the Republican party is so locked into an ideological box it cannot govern.


They are

- too concerned with political posturing for their extremist base.
- too worried about an old pledge they signed
- too worried they will face a primary challenge from the right
- too worried about what Rush Limbaugh might say
- too ideologically radical to deal with reality and governing

OP's "translator" seems to have a filter installed - it is either unable or unwilling to process everything that was said at the press conference.

Could be a battery failure, or could be the limits of its programming.

[tabasco]

3. Bookmarked. n/t

[lonestarnot]

5. Waiting and watching although I do not believe you.

[Inuca]

6. And my take is that

he will turn into a blue & red bipartiasan butterfly anf fly out the window. Equally fact-based.

[grahamhgreen]

8. Except yours can not come to pass.

[treestar]

9. Boner came away saying the President is "emphatic that taxes have

to be raised." So I guess you are wrong.

[grahamhgreen]

10. Wait for it. What else is he going to do?

Enact progressive solutions?

I don't think so.

[treestar]

11. With a Republican Congress, I do not expect the enactment of

anything that can be characterized as progressive and neither does any sane person.

Why are you not blaming Republicans and those who vote them into office for this mess?

[grahamhgreen]

13. Here is a progressive solution: bring the troops home.

Current cost of the wars is 6 trillion or half the debt.

As commander in cheif he can do it tomorrow.

The Repubs are watching out fot the interests of the monied elite, which is what they were elected to do, Obama should be fighting them, not aquiescing to their demands, that is why he was elected, and why the buck stops with him.

[grahamhgreen]

12. Oops

Here is a progressive solution: bring the troops home.

Current cost of the wars is 6 trillion or half the debt.

As commander in cheif he can do it tomorrow.

The Repubs are watching out fot the interests of the monied elite, which is what they were elected to do, Obama should be fighting them, not aquiescing to their demands, that is why he was elected, and why the buck stops with him.