There seems to be DU angst regarding ...

[JoePhilly]

70. The Combustible Hair Club decided a long time ago ...

... that the president hates the poor and the middle class. It might have been in a meeting not unlike the one held by Newt Gingrich and the GOP leaders on inauguration eve 2009.

They've spent the last 3+ years or so absolutely certain that Obama would cut Social Security. They have been so sure about this, that their level of anger over it started at a level commensurate with his having actually cutting social security, and then grown.

In addition to being wrong about this, which they are, they don;t seem to be able to grasp that if the President actually wanted to cut Social Security, he had the absolute perfect opportunity back in 2009.

The GOP's plan to kill social security has always been to bankrupt the country, increase debt and deficits, and then, when the economy is devastated, tell the American people ... "Hey, we need that money or we're all gonna die tomorrow."

And that's where we were in Jan/Feb/March of 2009. The country was freaked out. It was the absolute perfect time. In fact, if Bush had another year in office, that's what he'd have said to the American people. And the American people would have handed over their Social Security.

But this didn't happen. Obama, as part of the stimulus could have asked the American people to give up a nice big chuck of their Social Security, and they would have done it. But he didn't.

Folks here on DU were sure he was going to. Much like they were sure that in the summer of 2009, there would be a double-dip recession (they were wrong about that each of his first 4 summers in office, btw).

Since 2009, DU has had endless threads about how Obama was about to "cave" and and take social security from everyone. It was always imminent. Every budget. Every debt ceiling hostage crisis. Every piece of legislation with any important those threads would pop up.

Burning hair and outrage as far as the eye could see.

So what's next? ... I expect we'll see plenty of "Obama wanted to kill Social Security, but we stopped him" threads for a little while. But those won't have anywhere near the level of energy of the outrage threads.

Then ... its off to a new outrage!!