A reality based independent journal of observation & analysis, serving the Flathead Valley & Montana since 2006. © James Conner.
Ever since he took office, Barack Hussein Obama has been itching to make a Grand Bargain that includes cuts to Social Security and Medicare. That’s one of the reasons why so many Americans 65 and older are no longer voting for Democrats. They no longer trust Democrats to protect social insurance programs dating from the New Deal and Great Society.
Now, Obama may have succeeded. The New York Times reports that Obama just struck a deal with Speaker of the House Boehner and Senate Majority Leader O’Connell to raise the debt ceiling in exchange for cutting social insurance:
While congressional aides cautioned that the deal was far from certain, and the Treasury Department declined to comment, officials briefed on the negotiations said the emerging accord would call for cuts in spending on Medicare and Social Security disability benefits.
Paying Republican debt limit blackmail by taking money from the old and the disabled is reprehensible.
If these reports are true, there’s no fight left in Obama. And there never was much fight in him in the first place.