[NRG1973]

Speaker Boehner has just pulled off a major coup in his negotiations with the White House over the debt ceiling. Boehner has successfully gotten an incumbent Democratic President to propose cuts to the Social Security program. Whoever becomes the GOP nominee for president has to be overjoyed with this development because it will mean that the 0bama campaign won't be able to attack the GOP nominee about SS. If 0bama's campaign tries demogoguing the GOP nominee, then all that nominee will have to do is remind everyone that during the debt ceiling talks President 0bama, himself proposed cutting SS.

Cutting Social Security is not going to be considered for quite a few years, but because of Boehner's ploy, it will not be able to be used by the democrats against the Republican Presidential nominee in this election cycle.

[scooby321]

If nothing comes from tonight's meeting ( I hope not).

The house needs to pass a bill increasing the debt ceiling and send it to the Senate and then the pressure is on the Democratic Senate and President.

[WOSG]

“Speaker Boehner has just pulled off a major coup in his negotiations with the White House over the debt ceiling. Boehner has successfully gotten an incumbent Democratic President to propose cuts to the Social Security program. Whoever becomes the GOP nominee for president has to be overjoyed with this development because it will mean that the 0bama campaign won’t be able to attack the GOP nominee about SS. If 0bama’s campaign tries demogoguing the GOP nominee, then all that nominee will have to do is remind everyone that during the debt ceiling talks President 0bama, himself proposed cutting SS. “

You are right that this is an accomlishment, but OTOH the media will paper this over and still allow the demagoguery to continue unhindered.