WTF is wrong with Democrats that want to cut Social Security and/or Medicare?

[eomer]

131. Which in the context of the President's other statements

was clearly a pledge that the cuts would not rise to the level of "slashing". The President also said that we need a fix that "strengthens" social security but "preserves the promise". If you read through the President's press conferences and town hall meetings in July 2011 it is clear that he was proposing "strengthening" social security by both raising the cap and reducing the inflation adjustment that applies post-retirement. The latter is clearly a cut in benefits.

In a way those who deny that the President made these proposals are criticizing him even more than we who (factually) say that he did. You're effectively claiming that it's unthinkable that the President would have proposed this. And yet he did.

I, on the other hand, admit because it is plainly true that he made these proposals and go on to say that we should fight against them, while still supporting his reelection.

I do agree that it ought to be unthinkable, so in a way we're both working in the same direction. But the problem is that denying what plainly happened could mean that we don't fight against such proposals until after they've been passed into law.