I was thinking the same thing yesterday. Obama’s dream of gutting Social Security is pushed way to the back burner, similar to Clinton’s attempt to privatise it, but then, the Monica Lewinsky scandal broke.

Obama has 3 scandals to deal with here.

The push to cut Social Security under Obama is never permanently defeated just temporarily set back, but this could be a big setback.

That is totally true. Obama will try again.

Obama is bascially a rich white guy with a good suntan

LOL.

Surprised Obama didn’t mention the deficit during the speech. Everything always comes back to the deficit with this guy.

I though I heard a big sucking sound coming from the SMU campus.

LOL. It could be heard all the way to DC.

Obama can never resist an opportunity to suck up to Republicans.

His political instincts are still s***. He wants to cut Social Security (seems the only thing that really wants to do with his presidency), but the way he goes about it politically is a disaster, and the actual policy of cutting Social Security is a disaster as well. This sequester was done to “force” the GOP back to the table to get a grand clusterfuck bargain, and it didn’t work in the least.

He essentially wants the GOP to give him bipartisan cover when he does it so he can say “the GOP made me do it”. And that isn’t working in the least.

The original idea behind the sequester was to make the cuts so stupid, needlessly painful, and poorly designed that everyone would eventually clamor for a grand bargain deficit reduction plan to replace it.

Obama-some of the worst political instincts ever.

The sequester has turned out to be a massive political miscalculation.

Like a lot of things done by the Obama administration.

This is the only thing that he wants to do with his presidency. He doesn’t care about anything else. He seems to think cutting Social Security is the magical elixir that will cure all ills. Seriously, he really believes that.

When he’s out of office.

Vetoing means confrontation, something Obama hates, at least when it’s against Republicans.

Confronting liberals, he loves that.

If CISPA passes the Senate it will likely become law.

It’s pretty sad when a sitting president says he’ll veto something, and no one believes him (including me).

Reagan is Obama’s idol, not Lincoln, like some in the MSM have suggested.

Obama has even taken after Reagan on cosmetic grounds. I’m pretty damn sure he’s done Botox (I noticed that his eyebrows didn’t move at all in his recent gun control speech, a sure sign of Botox), and I’ve noticed Obama’s hair fluctuates between gray and brown, so he must be dyeing it.

Thanks.

Consumer confidence in April fell to “its lowest level since July”. Gee, with the sequester looming and the economy almost at a standstill, who cudda guessed?

don’t worry, Social Security cuts will fix that.

But FDR was called a traitor to his class, and FDR helped working class and poor people, something Obama finds abhorrent.

If you got Obama alone and asked him what he thought of FDR, he’d probably call him a liberal commie loser.

Sounds rather like what’s been happening in the US since Reagan, Thatcher’s soul mate, came to power and in essence never left, his evil like Thatcher’s living after him.

Except Reagan is revered here by the public at large, the MSM, and the current president. UK residents still despise Thatcher. They have long memories.

If Obama wanted to permanently alienate the liberal base, he’s done it.

True. Bill cut a deal with Newt back in 1998 to partially privatize Social Security. Luckily for us, the Monica scandal broke around the same time and Clinton had to use all his political capital to get his ass out of that, and the GOP base were in no mood to cut deals with Clinton.