Criticize the President? We should not even be having serious conversations about this.

[sofa king]

94. That's unfair to people like me.

I'm a former legislative analyst. I have watched with enthusiasm and amazement as the President has repeatedly found ways to turn Republican nastyness against themselves.

You know what I think about Chained CPI? I don't think jack shit has happened with it yet. I think a proposal to mess with it is more likely a tool, or a weapon, than a serious proposal. Show me a bill reported out of committee that makes it serious. Show me the public law that means it happened. A proposal is not a bill which is not a report which is not engrossed which is not a public law. If it's none of those things, it's crap.

Most of the rantings and ravings of betrayal about the proposal seem to me to be counterproductive and perhaps even counter-inspired in some cases--but I won't go there. Most of them seem to incorporate a completely fallacious and unwritten assumption that something has, or even can happen on the issue.

Here, look at what I said in 2011, and compare it to all of the hot air others blew off for years, over the Debt Committee mockery, for example, or tax cuts for the rich. (I am also wildly, famously wrong about things sometimes, but not about those above.) All that hand-waving and sky-falling bullshit because the echo-chamber of disaster shouts louder than the whisper of facts.

That is because, exactly as I noted in those links, few care about the actual procedure by which these things happen. None of you. Or so it seems some days. I see others like me, snidely nipping at the fringes of discussions like these with glimpses of insight, but too many of you just don't seem to want insight. You want to feel something about it, or trigger emotional responses in others about it.

Ultimately, I see a majority of you wasting time dividing a tomato not yet ripe on the plant. And I'm sorry if that pisses you all off, but you need to hear it.