Bonner just rejected the budget offer

[Rosco T.]

Heard on Ed's show.

Stand down, Bonner stepped in the trap

[yodermon]

1. doesn't matter, chained CPI is now officially on the table for future negotiations.

can't put that toothpaste back in the tube, unless we elect Bernie Sanders president.

[LongTomH]

2. And is anyone surprised?

[liberal N proud]

3. Bonehead

Obama may have know this would be the outcome and did it just to prove it.

[MotherPetrie]

4. Obama will keep trying. He starts from the "center" and works his way right.

[forestpath]

7. +1

[TM99]

5. So a game of chicken

that is just more of the same Kabuki theater.

He's playing a game, and he is arrogant enough to imagine that he will always win. What happens when the damned Republicans accept the cuts to Social Security, Medicare, etc. when he next offers them up in a 'grand compromise'? What then?

Soc Sec does not contribute to the deficit.

Stop playing games with our money to secure your fucking political legacy!

[forestpath]

6. So how much deeper will Obama slash SS and Medicare?

[Iwillnevergiveup]

8. Playing with peoples' lives

now and into the future makes me sick! S.S. is a Democratic party legacy, and even the rightest of wingnuts rely on it. All the speculation and worry over what will happen is just plain evil. There aren't many days I'd like to go back go, but the days of the "third rail" are sounding more and more appealing.

[juajen]

9. Uh, it's either "Boehner" or "Boner", but not Bonner, which would be

pronounced as you would "bonnet".

[Rosco T.]

10. Thank you Hyacinth Bucket

[budkin]

11. He needs to offer more cuts

Because "balanced approach"