Pres Obama: David, in pursuit of strengthening SS, I'm willing to cut SS benefits

[kenny blankenship]

63. This is EXACTLY what he wanted his legacy to be.

It damn sure wasn't healthcare. He had no plan for that and got shamed into echoing calls from other candidates in the primaries. Then he gets elected and even before his Inauguration he starts talking about how we're going to start making tough choices on entitlements blah blah blah and offering to Republican leaders to cut the safety net programs EVEN THOUGH NONE OF HIS DUPES (and I was one) ELECTED HIM TO DO THAT. And his healthcare plan? LOL! that turns out in practice to be the OPPOSITE of what he promised. His planned for "legacy" is the thing he DIDN'T tell us he would do, and now won't give up trying to do no matter how much Democrats don't want him to succeed at it.

We were deceived into electing a Pete Peterson created Trojan Horse candidate.

It's a lot like how George W. Bush immediately set about planning war with Iraq when he became President, although none of his dupes had elected him to do that either. They couldn't have voted for him to invade Iraq as he neglected to tell any of us voters about his war plans. The similarity extends even to the element of reversal, since just as candidate Obama publicly ridiculed the Individual Mandate before imposing it on us as President, candidate Bush publicly ridiculed the notion of "nation building" - and by extension the idea of "humanitarian war"- as a liberal fantasy of the outgoing Clinton administration. Then once installed as President, Bush moved implacably to launch his elective Iraq war, partly on humanitarian grounds (Saddam gassed his own people!), and likewise his occupation of Afghanistan (the Taliban oppress their own wimmins!) , and consequently committed himself to a thorough and thoroughly DOOMED project of nation building on top of the rubble he had created in both countries.

We're never told what the REAL agenda is. In Obama's case it's cutting the safety net, and in doing so, pretending that the nation has moved into an era of "post-partisan consensus", where the term post-partisan actually means everything gets decided on terms that would have delighted the billionaire Neoliberal backers of the Reagan Revolution, and competing ideas of political economy left over from the FDR-to-Carter period no longer exist and may not even be mentioned.