Does Obama want to push granny off a cliff?

[woo me with science]

5. Nothing centrist about it.

The people in this country are strongly against cutting SS benefits, even across party lines.

This is an extreme corporatist position, like most of his administration's positions.

*This* is the economy in which we are being lectured by corporatists that already meager Social Security benefits need to be attacked...even though Social Security adds not one red cent to the deficit: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022640683#post2

We have seen unprecedented viciousness and ugliness on DU over the past week as the reliable corporate mouthpieces desperately try to shift the conversation to anything else - racism, guns, "hissy fits,"...anything - to divert from this outrageous, indefensible assault on Americans...Americans who have already been looted through legislation into impoverishment while the fat bankers and CEO's are rolling in record profits.

If anyone doubted the level of compassion of the Third Way before, we saw it this week when the mask came off and they ceased even to pretend. America is taking note: *This* is what happens to the heart and soul and compassion of our country when the corporatists get their way: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022632517