Democrats plead with Obama to abandon Social Security cut

[1StrongBlackMan]

143. I don't need to ...

every 2 months or so, someone will post the obligatory, "This time he really is coming for SS" thread, and DUers will do their reactionary freak out ... like clock work.

None of which remotely considers what is going on ... that the CCPI (and any idea of cuts to SS) is/was a non-starter from its inception

But what it DOES/DID do is put the gop in a real bind.

Let's look at what has actually happened:

They said they wanted cuts to SS => President Obama said "Fine, here's a CCPI that exempt the poor, veterans, the disabled and the elderly, in exchange for significant increases in revenue."

Now let's look at how the folks in Congress reacted to the proposal.

Democrats in safe districts said, flat out, "Hell no!" Democrats in less safe districts and the Democratic leadership, said: "Let's look at everything, but before we do anything, republicans must raise revenue."

The Republicans were all over the map; but mostly were quiet, as they realized President Obama's proposal was something they couldn't address, let alone support, without facing primaries from the right (because of the increased revenue provision) and mass defections of the "Don't touch my SS" elderly.