Obama's New Budget Is Actually Giving Republicans Exactly What They Asked For In December

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http://www.businessinsider.com/chained-cpi-social-security-cuts-obama-budget-boehner-mcconnell-2013-4



The most controversial item in President Barack Obama's fiscal year 2014 budget is a plan to cut Social Security benefits — an idea that Republicans supported during the fiscal cliff negotiations and said could be the prelude to a sweeping budget deal that included new revenues.

The Washington Post's Greg Sargent notes this morning the Republican change in tone on the "chained CPI" compromise since the fiscal cliff negotiations.

Last week, House Speaker John Boehner said that Obama should work with Republicans on the reform now, but that he still disagreed with the President on implementing any new taxes. On the Senate floor Tuesday, Minority Leader Mitch McConnell called the entitlement reforms in Obama's budget "modest."

As Sargent points out, McConnell told the Wall Street Journal in late November that the chained CPI cost-of-living adjustment, means-testing on Medicare premiums, and an increase in the Medicare eligibility age would be the "kinds of things that would get Republicans interested in new revenue."


Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/chained-cpi-social-security-cuts-obama-budget-boehner-mcconnell-2013-4#ixzz2Q45HHZav

[Orrex]

1. How about an NSFW warning before posting that pic of a prolapsed anus?

[xchrom]

2. right?

i couldn't resist.

[Bluenorthwest]

4. Nah, the pro cut crowd needs to see exactly what it is they are kissing

Pucker up, Mitch is waiting for his gift!

[demwing]

5. I'm not generally a violent guy

but that smirking brat pisses me off more than Boehner and Cantor combined, and nearly as much as Bush.

Makes me think of that old Ramone's song:

[Denzil_DC]

8. Too damn right! n/t

[n2doc]

11. I wish that pic could be posted on every billboard in Kentucky

Let the rubes see who they are supporting.

[upaloopa]

3. New revenue on the backs of senior who will get less income

I won't support Obama for the rest of his term if he does this. I told O for A that yesterday.

[Katashi_itto]

6. I am so done voting ever again. Screw it. It makes no difference.

I am just getting out of this country.

[Bolo Boffin]

7. So why aren't they jumping on it? n/t

[Octafish]

9. They want more.

That's why it's not smart to give away the store and then try to negotiate it back.

[GoCubsGo]

10. Exactly. I just saw another thread that said...

...they're bitching about the budget without having even read it. It doesn't matter what he proposes. If he's for it, they're against it, even if they were begging for it a second before he proposed it.