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In reply to the discussion: Criticize the President? We should not even be having serious conversations about this. [View all]TekGryphon
(430 posts)As I said in another thread, I cannot agree with so many of you on your outrage over Chained CPI and I believe you're doing a great disservice to the Democratic party and the nation.
Obama effectively destroyed Chained CPI as a possible agenda item for the GOP. For years they've been trying to get it put into effect through backroom negotiations. By taking the issue and putting it front and center on the public stage he has forced all sides, including the 4th estate, to review it and to recognize its grievous flaws.
He was a lame-duck President making a fake compromise on a bill that was 100% guaranteed to be rejected to a party that opposes any stance he makes on principle. In doing so, Obama destroyed Chained CPI in a way that was utterly predictable (my friends and I called it on Facebook within the hour of its announcement) to everyone but the angry right and the angry left.
It was not 4th dimension chess. It was an obvious solution that I cheered wildly for the moment I saw it, and cheered even louder when I saw the GOP and corporate media fall right into their predetermined rolls. The only thing that took me by surprise was the left who, instead of opening their eyes and watching the destruction of Chained CPI, decided to use this as a chance to express their misgivings over their party being in ascendency in the American mind.