So all the Democrats running for the House in 2014 will be forced, from the get go...

[WCGreen]

to distance themselves from the president.

Before they get a chance to introduce themselves, define themselves, they will be put on the defensive.

Meanwhile, the GOP incumbents can flood the district with "franked" mailings about how much they are doing to protect Social Security, praise the program, point out that they support tax cuts not benefit cuts.

[The Link]

1. Basically, yes.

[ForgoTheConsequence]

2. Yep.

Kind of hard to run as being a member of the party that wants to protect your social security and medicare from the vultures on Wall Street and DC when the leader of your party is coming up with shit like this. Republicans get a win-win. They get the cuts they wanted and they get to place the blame on Obama. Obama completely dropped the ball here.

[HiPointDem]

3. yes. setting us up for jeb & a republican majority which will drive the final nails into the coffin

of the new deal.

while the gop are plundering at the state level as well.

makes you wonder.

[leveymg]

4. Exactly. This is the HCR disaster, redux, 5 times worse.

[WCGreen]

5. His political guru's are either naive or incompetent.

[leveymg]

8. They're almost as good at losing elections for other Dems as they are winning them for themselves.

I'll include the Senate Dem leadership in on that assessment.

[robinlynne]

15. or very right wing.

[leveymg]

16. Right.

[DJ13]

6. Im starting to think

That Obama isnt the head of the Democratic party, he's really the head of the GOP.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

7. Exactly right.

And what a great position that is to be in. NOT.

I am so disgusted.

This may well mean the end of our hopes of taking back the House.

[Maven]

9. Pretty much. That's some Serious People, "post-partisan" strategy for you.

[Cali_Democrat]

10. Obama's proposal pretty much guaranteed that the GOP will maintain the House in 2014

And with the number of Dems retiring in the Senate, we might have to kiss that goodbye.

Unbelievable.

Maybe Reid was right not to pursue filibuster reform. In two short years, it's possible the Dems will be the minority in the Senate.

[Poll_Blind]

11. Yup. It's a nasty scenario. nt

PB

[NickB79]

12. In red states, they're doubly screwed

They have to distance themselves from the President on Social Security AND on gun control.

I was optimistic we could maintain control of the Senate and pick up some House seats even with the gun control issue, now that the threat of a new AWB and magazine ban were stripped.

But now that they've piled on with this chained-CPI bullshit, I'm not feeling so good about 2014.

[WCGreen]

13. All we can hope is that the incompetent leaders of the GOP

run on social issues...

[NickB79]

14. That's what still gives me hope!

If there's one thing we can count on, it's the GOP fielding at least a few incompetent candidates!