Reply #12: It's not compromise if it's what you wanted to begin with. [View All]

Obama wants cuts, just like he did not want to raise taxes on anyone in December 2010.

You don't hire a Republican as your Secretary of Treasury if you're planning on a populist Democratic economic agenda, just as you don't hire Gates as your Secretary of Defense if being a peace time President is your agenda.

It would healthy to stop claiming that he is weak or helpless to otherwise or compromising like some great statesman or chess player, when he is simply pursuing pretty much the agenda that he wants to pursue.

Sometimes, occam's razor actually works.

From a WAPO article published shortly before Inauguration.

"President-elect Barack Obama pledged yesterday to shape a new Social Security and Medicare "bargain" with the American people, saying that the nation's long-term economic recovery cannot be attained unless the government finally gets control over its most costly entitlement programs. "

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/15/AR2009011504114.html

"Entitlement programs." We know what people who choose that term intend.