As much as I like Obama, there's nothing I can say to defend him.

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58. If you think that anyone here thought the Republicans would accept this then it is not they who are

not paying attention.

This is what the 'professional left' predicted. That they would not accept any offer, regardless. But they wait to see if the president would dare to include SS cuts in his proposal and then they would do what they always do, keeping the 2014 election in mind, use every tool they could, to put themselves in the majority in the Senate and increase their majority in Congress.

And over the last few days this is exactly what they have done. Two of them so far have claimed to be the protectors of SS. They are SHOCKED they say, that the President would 'harm the elderly' by cutting SS, something, they say they will not do.

So there is the result of the amazing chess game we've been hearing about. Republicans pounced on the Democrats positioning themselves as the enemies of SS now, and handing what was always their issue, to Republicans.

Yes, yes we know they are lying, but as the defenders of this horrible proposal have been telling us all along, the president 'isn't serious' either.

Meantime when while all those millionaires are busy lying and not being serious, millions of Americans, the most vulnerable, are now scared to death that they will lose once again no matter who is lying about what. Because they always do, lately.