Is it me, or is Obama as bad a "listener" about Social Security as Bush was about invading Iraq?

[Marr]

41. I see it the same way-- that argument makes no logical sense.

The argument is that any budget Obama proposes is DOA anyway, and he only submitted this one for political gain.

Well, how does proposing items that are massively unpopular with the majority of Americans-- not just Democrats, but Americans in general-- gain him anything politically? The whole "it makes the other party look bad" line is nonsense, as it isn't the other party party who proposed it. Recalcitrance isn't going to cost them anything politically if they can just tell voters they were defending Social Security. It'll be a huge boon, in fact (assuming they don't just say "yes&quot .

If you wanted to use a DOA budget bill for political gain, you'd propose *popular* things. Like... well, like the things he talked about during his campaigns. The things that won him elections. Seems sort of common sense to me.

These tortured explanations for why black is actually chartreuse and up is actually sideways have only grown more and more removed from reality.