Godbama giveth, and Godbama taketh away:
President Barack Obama on Thursday dropped a measure to trim cost-of-living increases in Social Security from an upcoming budget proposal in an election-year move that may insulate fellow Democrats facing heat from senior voters.
The White House said Obama's budget proposal for the 2015 fiscal year, to be released on March 4th, will not include a plan he made last year that represented an effort to gain some Republican support and break congressional gridlock.
Dropping the offer this year is a sign Democrats are girding for November congressional elections and are in no mood to risk supporting proposals that could cost them votes from seniors on Election Day on November 4th.
I'll delve into O's latest back-stabbing later on today. Here I will only mention the absurdity of trying with one hand to "woo" seniors with an extra three bucks a month by walking away from a slight slowing in the rate of increase of annual COLA adjustments to Social Security benefits that would have saved approximately $230 billion when with the other hand he's gutting Medicare Advantage - a plan that the elderly liked that they're not being allowed to keep - even more to try and keep ObamaCare from drowning even quicker than it already is, resulting in the usual runaway premiums, spiraling deductibles, and exploding co-pays, not one of which are skyrocketing in $3 a month increments.
Seniors have been a "date" of the Democrat Party for half a century or more because of Social Security and Medicare, but never a "cheap" date. And there's no such thing as a date this cheap, as Donks are going to find out with a vengeance 256 days from now.
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