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

[TekGryphon]

270. If you could hop off the dog pile and think for a moment..

... you'd understand. You're right, Obama SHOULD be against cutting social security. He SHOULD be for strengthening it.

Guess what? That's exactly what he's done. His last term was littered with ways he has fought for the elderly, and the closing of the doughnut hole was one of my favorite.

And after years saying that social security was too vital to our seniors and our economy to afford Chained CPI he comes out and says "Republicans refuse to raise additional revenues unless I agree to this ghastly Chained CPI, so I'll put it in the budget". He says it knowing full well that budget has a ZERO percent chance of passing.

His timing and his delivery were perfect. Everyone knew it was a compromise, everyone knew it was there to appease Republicans, and everyone knew that Republicans were monumental dicks for refusing to work on revenues unless they got it.

Except a certain segment of the Democratic party didn't want to join in on destroying Chained CPI. They did what they always do - dog pile on Obama and take vicious glee in ripping apart his image and the image of their party.

So now the middle 90% of the country knows what's up: Chained CPI is bad and the Republicans wanted it. There's only 2 groups who deny it. The extreme idiot right, made up of Bacchman and others, who now want to reinvent history and pretend Republicans didn't want Chained CPI, and the extreme idiot left, who want to act like Obama put Chained CPI in the budget because he wants it.