Blame others for cutting entitlements, and go find political cover for raising taxes too.
This has Axelrod written all over it and anyone who buys it is naive.
Everything The Won does has Axelrod written all over it. Obama is incapable of making any decisions on his own.
The. Worst. President. Ever.
This sounds like incrementalism to me. Obama gets the conservatives to go along with this plan under the pretense that it will cut entitlements, but once established, the new 18-member panel will instead increase taxes and use SS/Medicare/Medicaid to provide universal healthcare coverage entitlements, based on the panel’s broad authority.
Why would the panel need even authority over taxation if the only purpose of the panel was to cut entitlements and save money?
You don’t think George Soros has a direct line to Obama’s blackberry?