Reply #25: Even more ironic given Schakowsky actually

[suffragette]

drafted a plan that would go in that direction while on the Deficit Commission. That plan is one written by a Democrat and is in the zone with your OP.

But, I haven't heard word one of Obama commenting on her plan. Instead he announces: “The commission’s majority report includes a number of specific proposals that I — along with my economic team — will study closely in the coming weeks as we develop our budget and our priorities for the coming year,” Mr. Obama said in a statement distributed by the White House as the president visited troops in Afghanistan. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/04/us/politics/04fiscal.html

That would be the Republican-leaning "majority report."

Then he meets with Republicans to come up with this compromise, this before the House actually changes hands to Republican control in January.


Actions are speaking loudly here.