The President is a freaking genius ! [View all]

He is letting the GOP save face by letting them take credit for taking the Chained CPI off the table.

This way he gets exactly what he was after anyway.

Brilliant!

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The President is a freaking genius ! [View all]	sellitman	Dec 2012	OP
Ah, crap.	Buzz Clik	Dec 2012	#1
Don't worry, plenty here on HairOnFireUnderground will hate him anyway.	JoePhilly	Dec 2012	#7
+1	Tarheel_Dem	Dec 2012	#26
LOL!!!!!!!!	meti57b	Dec 2012	#28
Love the new name!!!	greatauntoftriplets	Dec 2012	#30
heehee. The excitement never ends, at HOFU.	Hekate	Dec 2012	#35
That was hilarious--you win the thread!	MADem	Dec 2012	#40
you	heaven05	Dec 2012	#50
Lol u made me spit my juice out on my ipad	skeewee08	Dec 2012	#51
Do you think we would get an Alert	KT2000	Dec 2012	#57
Tee hee hee	Tutonic	Dec 2012	#59
You do realize he was sending you up?	grahamhgreen	Dec 2012	#42
Tell it the clowns who have been shitting all over Obama for weeks here.	MjolnirTime	Dec 2012	#2
He admitted this morning that he proposed cutting Social Security.	JDPriestly	Dec 2012	#44
He knew they would never accept it.	sellitman	Dec 2012	#60
Dangerous game!	JDPriestly	Dec 2012	#62
End game	sellitman	Dec 2012	#63
He still has you fooled......oh well youre not the only one.	bowens43	Dec 2012	#3
Your ilk are the ones who look foolish. But should we really expect different?	MjolnirTime	Dec 2012	#5
+1!	Buzz Clik	Dec 2012	#10
I see you as the one who is "fooled".	Cha	Dec 2012	#16
Love is blind. I now know what that means. Wow!!!	JDPriestly	Dec 2012	#45
I don't think you "see' anything.	Cha	Dec 2012	#49
Doubling down, are ya?	MADem	Dec 2012	#41
I can guarantee it will go back on the table later.	leveymg	Dec 2012	#4
You can't guarantee anything except the fact that you will continue to bash Obama.	MjolnirTime	Dec 2012	#6
You wanna give me odds on that one?	leveymg	Dec 2012	#12
Why the 2:1 odds if you're so sure	alcibiades_mystery	Dec 2012	#17
I didn't think anyone would take me up on it. I was right. Even if I gave odds.	leveymg	Dec 2012	#18
The odds are 1:1 that you will continue to bash. What kind of bet is that?	MjolnirTime	Dec 2012	#19
I don't need to bash. If Obama wants to spit on the third rail and make it spark as a party trick,	leveymg	Dec 2012	#21
and yet, that's all you really do. Just look at your posts.	MjolnirTime	Dec 2012	#25
How would you know? You obviously haven't.	leveymg	Dec 2012	#38
We aren't bashing Obama as a person; we are bashing his proposal to cut Social Security.	JDPriestly	Dec 2012	#46
The gops put it on in the first place..	Cha	Dec 2012	#9
No - this same idea was on the table during the Clinton Admin., along with privatizing SS.	leveymg	Dec 2012	#13
Yes, Jay Carney said the repubs brought it up.	Cha	Dec 2012	#14
Depends upon when you start the clock. Recall it was a feature of the '98 proposals that were	leveymg	Dec 2012	#20
Really? I'm quite willing to accept your premise once there is sufficient evidence to support it.	man4allcats	Dec 2012	#8
"A conservative manipulator"?.. Yeah right..	Cha	Dec 2012	#15
Good answer!	sheshe2	Dec 2012	#36
Are you saying that Obama likes gays and doctors, but not old people?	JDPriestly	Dec 2012	#47
Good links, Cha!	Hekate	Dec 2012	#58
that would explain why we're seeing a few of them conceede	loyalkydem	Dec 2012	#11
So now the GOP is fighting to save SS while our guy wants to cut it?	Demo_Chris	Dec 2012	#22
Nice	Jake2413	Dec 2012	#23
The Republicans were never going to vote for poverty reduction of nearly 4 million seniors.	joshcryer	Dec 2012	#24
yup.....	madrchsod	Dec 2012	#27
This will come up in every budget fight for the next four years. Teabaggers....	Tarheel_Dem	Dec 2012	#29
Pretty much.	Jennicut	Dec 2012	#55
I don't see the genius in it. You are right the Republicans will	doc03	Dec 2012	#31
I agree	Third Doctor	Dec 2012	#34
It pissed off the part of Obama's "base" that never liked or trusted him in the first place	Hekate	Dec 2012	#37
They can put it in ads all they want.. all they do is lie but, they're a	Cha	Dec 2012	#39
Obama was a quick study of sun tzu	Brother Buzz	Dec 2012	#32
Yep, classic Calvin-ball.	bemildred	Dec 2012	#33
He should never have put chained CPI on the table.	JDPriestly	Dec 2012	#43
Maybe if you got the story straight you'd quit blaming President Obama	Cha	Dec 2012	#53
As long as it is off the table,	JEB	Dec 2012	#48
I want my props too	AldoLeopold	Dec 2012	#52
He's not getting what he wanted. He wanted chained CPI.	MotherPetrie	Dec 2012	#54
Look! Another Cupie doll all for me!	AldoLeopold	Dec 2012	#56
He never wanted it.	sellitman	Dec 2012	#61