One theory is that since O has already won reelection, he could actually work with Rs to reform entitlements, without fear of leftist voter retaliation. Unfortunately, every time O says he is cutting spending it ends up being some kind of trick that costs even more to the bottom line. And the GOP has some sleazy budget tricks of its own.
” One theory is that since O has already won reelection, he could actually work with Rs to reform entitlements, without fear of leftist voter retaliation.”
Except that Obama wants to destroy our economy.
HA-HA, I think a few weeks ago I said that it could be a possibility in the next four years anyway, but I certainly was not predicting that he would and it is not lookin that way right now in the short term.
I would say that the lib Dem base (in both houses too) is telling him :
“We won. We beat them. No more deals(as in 2010). It is now time to stick it to them and make them pay. And no touchin entitlements. Stick it to the rich. Humiliate the House Rs.”
So O will give them their Republican blood (tax increases) first. Then we will see where he goes from there.
Here's my original point : Do we really want O to look successful at something like this like he looked to voters with Bin Laden? Sure Bin is dead but now we got four more years of O.
Obama wants to raise taxes, and he is demanding that certain taxes will go up.
Now it is certainly a possibility that these taxes could result in a slower economy, or maybe something else will slow it down anyway looking like the taxes, so he demands a stimulus at the same time to pump the economy short term. He will just spend that new tax money. He wants no short term deficit reduction. He lied about that folks *shocked*
Now entitlements? How does he sell that to te Pelosi crew? They will tell him “We won”, so raise more taxes.