Club For Growth Questions GOP Rep. For Attacking Obama On Social Security Cuts

[DonViejo]

Source: TPM

The conservative advocacy group Club for Growth is calling on Rep. Greg Walden to expand on his comments Wednesday, in which he attacked President Barack Obama for proposing cuts to entitlements -- a goal ordinarily sought by the majority of his party.

“Greg Walden doesn’t seriously oppose even the most modest of reforms to social security, right?” said Club for Growth President Chris Chocola in a statement. “With nearly $100 trillion in unfunded liabilities, the last thing Republicans should attack the Democrats for is for making the most minor reforms to our entitlement programs. If anything, President Obama nibbles around the edges of entitlement reform and doesn’t do anything to put entitlements on a permanently sustainable path.

“Greg Walden ought to think about clarifying his remarks on chained CPI, and think about clarifying soon. I’m sure his constituents would like to know his opinion,” he added. Walden, who happens to chair the House GOP’s re-election committee, went on CNN earlier Wednesday to decry Obama's budget because it “lays out a shocking attack on seniors.”

“I’ll tell you when you’re going after seniors the way he’s already done on Obamacare, taken $700 billion out of Medicare to put into Obamacare and now coming back at seniors again, I think you’re crossing that line very quickly here in terms of denying access to seniors for health care in districts like mine certainly and around the country,” he said.

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[upaloopa]

1. Geez what a cluster f..k this is getting to be.

[djean111]

2. Yes, Club for Growth is quite pleased with Chained CPI.

This is interesting - Dems wanting/needing to distance themselves from Obama's proposal, GOP leaping on the gift of Dems proposing cutting Social Security and being admonished by the very people who have demanded it.

[Volaris]

5. If this ends up being a wedge

between the senior's who usually vote GOP and the Businesss Arm of that party that hates SocSec and wants it privatized at best and destroyed outright at worst, that's a master's class on how to run a Mid-Term..

I can't IMAGINE that the GOP leadership would be dumb enough to fall for it though, but you never know.

What REALLY is interesting to me, is the notion that in order for this wedge to have a really sharp edge, OBAMA had to propose it, and then let his own base be the sledgehammer, which as anyone could have guessed, we are MORE than happy to do for him. Not too many politicians have that kind of Balls (IF thats whats actually happening)...

If he fucks this up though, he will be regarded as a piraha by Liberals for the next half-century at least. This is WAY more dangerous (politically) than not backing the Public Option.

[ForgoTheConsequence]

3. They may be shitty.

But at least they're consistently shitty.

[Iliyah]

4. This is not gonna last long

and the GOPers true colors will come out. They want to completely destroy SSI and Medicare and a lost of Americans know that.

[forestpath]

6. PBO must be pleased as punch he has the Club for Growth's approval!

[DeSwiss]

7. When ''The Club For Growth'' is your friend....

...who needs liberals?

[Larrylarry]

8. From what I read ...

Growth is making fun of the presidents proposal not getting behind him and supporting it

But haters going to hate

[1StrongBlackMan]

9. So the question becomes ...

What does the CfG see/know that DU doesn't/is unwilling to see?

Could it be what that the gop has walked into a trap? The gop cannot say, "No revenue without 'entitlement' cuts" AND "We can't cut 'entitlements" and be seen bythose "independents" in the gerrymandered districts (the ones we need to flip the House in 2014) as anything but pure obstructionists.

[obama2terms]

10. I just thought of this

What if all republicans in congress decided to be against SS cuts just because they think Obama is for them, that would be VERY interesting.

[Pakid]

11. If this is a game that President Obama is playing

to box in the GOP it is a very dangerous game and one that could backfire big time come 2014 and 2016. And if it not a game then it has to rate as one of the most tone deaf things any president has ever done. Sometimes one should not play with fire.