Common
05-07-2013, 05:08 AM
This is an old game played by both parties. Second Term president pushs for something unpopular with his base and his party goes against him for an election boost. This has been practiced by both parties forever.
Make The president <obama or whoever> the bad guy who cant run for re election, to bolster those in congress that are.
- The majority of Senate Democrats running for reelection in 2014, including three running in red states, have broken with President Barack Obama and are opposing his effort to cut Social Security benefits, imperiling the austerity project known as the "grand bargain." In his most recent budget proposal, Obama included a measure to reduce the cost-of-living adjustment related to senior and veterans benefits as a compromise offer to Republicans. He had already put so-called chained CPI on the table during both debt ceiling and fiscal cliff negotiations with House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), and defended his move (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/10/chained-cpi-obama-democrats_n_3055343.html?1365628491) this time by emphasizing it was a reform "championed by Republicans leaders in Congress" that would only be made in exchange for new tax revenues.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/06/democrats-social-security_n_3224503.html
Make The president <obama or whoever> the bad guy who cant run for re election, to bolster those in congress that are.
- The majority of Senate Democrats running for reelection in 2014, including three running in red states, have broken with President Barack Obama and are opposing his effort to cut Social Security benefits, imperiling the austerity project known as the "grand bargain." In his most recent budget proposal, Obama included a measure to reduce the cost-of-living adjustment related to senior and veterans benefits as a compromise offer to Republicans. He had already put so-called chained CPI on the table during both debt ceiling and fiscal cliff negotiations with House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), and defended his move (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/10/chained-cpi-obama-democrats_n_3055343.html?1365628491) this time by emphasizing it was a reform "championed by Republicans leaders in Congress" that would only be made in exchange for new tax revenues.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/06/democrats-social-security_n_3224503.html