Alarms Go Off as Obama Plays Footsie with Raising Medicare Age

[JoePhilly]

24. He's letting the GOP flail.

To do anything else would be to basically declare that there will be no deal and that we are going over the cliff no matter what. And he's not going to declare that.

Of course what the administration has said is this:
http://www.businessinsider.com/geithner-fiscal-cliff-over-obama-republicans-john-boehner-2012-12

And then of course you have statements from promiant Dems like this:
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2012/12/09/1306501/top-senate-democrat-rejects-raising-medicare-eligibility-age/

Again, the age isn't going up.

Now, you could make your own detailed prediction of what you think Obama is going to do and when it will happen, but I won't hold my breath.

Like I said ... the same prediction gets made about every six months. Then it doesn't happen, and then about 6 months later it pops back up.

So my next prediction is that after it doesn't happen this time, and such predictions die down, in 6 months or so we'll have ground hog day and do it all over.