re: #30 Randall Gross

Underlying all of this is the fact that they want to cut medicare and social security, but don’t want to be the ones seen as proposing it, creating the bill, and voting for it. They want some face saving legislative smoke screen devices employed that will allow them to say “Obama cut Social Security” in 2014.

Yep, I tried pointing this out over at PJ media.

All the cuss at Obama for not proposing to gut SS and Medicare means that the Republicans have to OWN destroying the elderly poor if that’s what they’re going to insist on. I said, “that’s what you want but you don’t have the guts to actually put your names on a proposal. You don’t have the guts to take the heat, so you’re insisting that Obama do it for you. He TRIED negotiating with himself before by proposing the most far right wing version of everything he wanted and all that happened was that the Republicans had to sprint further right than Hitler to avoid making any deals. You know that if you propose what you’ve been demanding all along you’re going to get yourselves voted out. You don’t have the guts”

I got no answer.