If you're wondering what Obama gets in exchange for Chained CPI...

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27. The op makes since to anyone that has read Will Marshall and the other PPI hacks

Or read anything at third way.org since the site opened, it is not the op's fault or mine if you have been so ill informed for so long.

They love this crap, they use all of Pete Peterson's talking points to attack the big three (have been for years)

The only thing they like more than "entitlement reforms (newspeak for cuts)" is free trade agreements or possibly lowering taxes and "streamlining regulations" for corporations. (streamlining regulations is newspeak for deregulation, a fact that becomes know when you read their articles using that term)

The only thing Democratic about these purchased by corporations hacks is their positive views on marriage equality and women's rights issues.

Obama didn't invent this shit, he just appears to be a loyal follower of theirs, it is not new, and it certainly is not a clever plan to "save us".

The entire fake dem centrist crap has been around since the mid to late eighties and their stated reason for forming has always been to allow Democrats to be competitive in receiving corporate donations and purging Democratic views and policies that made Democrats less electable by turning off more conservative Americans IOW Reagan Democrats and moderate Republicans.

They are funded almost entirely by the 1% The old DLC had to rebranded because their Koch bros. connections became too well know for fucks sake.

Yes it does make sense that the 1% want these policies created by these think tanks they support financially. It is their way of slowly destroying social programs from one of their operative branches while shooting for a fast fascism from the other.