Obama destroyed Chained CPI and I don't understand why we're not celebrating

[sofa king]

100. Did it in an election season, no less.

Without a single Democratic candidate getting tarred for it. It de-fanged the Defense lobby, too.

A good budget is a possibility because all indications suggest that Republican obstinacy, and therefore predictability, has not changed. If you know they're going to say no to everything, you can outmaneuver them in much the same way that a parent can outmaneuver a child who says no to everything. That's how we snookered them into the Defense cuts in the first place.

We can also make them look really, really bad to their constituents, too, which is one of two essential budgetary hammer-blows that we have to deliver to the GOP before the 2014 mid-terms. The playing field is far more favorable now than it was four years ago, I'll say that, and Republicans have shown a perfect willingness to harm their own constituents in the pursuit of opposition.

So it's looking like a pretty good year, overall.