Cutting Social Security and Medicare? That's the 'Middle' to Cokie Roberts

[eridani]

http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/04/08/cutting-social-security-and-medicare-thats-the-middle/

To Roberts, Obama has been shoring up liberal support on other issues–immigration, guns, marriage equality. But these budget moves have a different purpose:

This is a move towards the middle, to getting those independent voters who he lost in the last election…. by emphasizing deficits, which is something they say they care about.

But who exactly wants to cut Social Security and Medicare? Not many people, according to this recent Washington Post poll: Just 17 percent supported cutting Medicare benefits, and 21 percent said the same for Social Security. These are policy ideas that never poll very well. But for elite media the "middle" is where brave politicians go in order to slash benefits for everyone else.

[hobbit709]

1. Cokie insults her father's name every time she spouts RW BS.

[Jim__]

2. Cokie Roberts doesn't know her ass from a hole in the ground.

[BeyondGeography]

3. A more savvy pundit you will not find

People who don't have that much have been screaming, "come take our extra money," for years.

[Triana]

4. I cannot STAND that woman. RW shill.

I quit donating to NPR because of her (among other reasons).

[NorthCarolina]

5. That's the meme they are trying to push anyway.

Same agenda as "some" here on DU as well.

[socialist_n_TN]

8. Yeah, exactly........

The most RW of economic policies are being sold as the "middle". It is SO fucking obvious.

[Faygo Kid]

6. Clueless, inside-the-Beltway drivel

So many clones of the late David Broder. Another talking (empty) head.

[byeya]

9. Is David Broder dead? How did they know?

[kentuck]

12. Clueless is sufficent.

She's been in the bubble so long she can't even see out her kitchen window..

[JHB]

7. There's no trubble in a bubble, just floatin' along

[kairos12]

10. Inside the beltway shill--can't stand her

[carolinayellowdog]

11. the sound of her voice makes me run to turn down the volume

it's as predictable as with Mara Liasson that I'll be screaming BULLSHIT if I listen

[neverforget]

13. She's got hers and Obama made her happy so all is good

inside the Beltway Bubble for Cokie.

[WorseBeforeBetter]

14. Yet another very wrong, Very Serious Person.

Go ahead Dems, run on cuts to SS and Medicare to shore up the Independent vote. A sure winner!

[Marr]

15. Sure. Half way between what the 1% wants and what the rest of us want.

The 99% want to keep their Social Security (which they already paid for). The 1% wants to steal it all. So we meet in the middle and they'll just bleed the funds out slowly.

Democracy in action!