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even to save it.”
As Greg Sargent points out, this
is all quite ridiculous. Obama’s
February budget “contained hundreds of billions in spending cuts
— including cuts to Medicare.”
The president asserted his desire
to use Simpson-Bowles as a framework for a Grand Bargain in his
speech at the Democratic National
Convention. That sequestration
offset proposal contains spending cuts and entitlement reforms
in the form of Medicare cuts and
chained Consumer Price Index.
Pushback, like the sort Sargent offers, is important in bringing the
debate back into the real world.
There are stirrings that a return
to reality might be possible. Over
the weekend, Ezra Klein wondered
if maybe the congressional GOP
just doesn’t know what Obama