Washington Post Shocked to Discover Obama's Approach Not Balanced
Just how out of balance is the President's balanced approach? Enough that the Washington Post has written not one but two editorials demanding that entitlement reform be included the mix. The first piece, two weeks ago, was unequivocal: "Any serious debt-reduction plan has to include revenue and defense cuts. But no serious one can exclude entitlements."
But it appears the President and his party are planning to kick the can down the road. Greg Sargent reported Tuesday that union leaders held a private meeting with the President. One attendee described the President's expectations as follows: "They expect taxes to go up on the wealthy and to protect Medicare and Medicaid benefits."
While the union bosses are apparently celebrating this good news, the Washington Post editorial board is sounding more and more like a Republican presidential candidate:
Mitt Romney couldn't have said it any better. But the Post goes even farther, quoting a promise of serious reform Obama made directly to the editorial board circa 2009:
Just how out of balance is the President's balanced approach? Enough that the Washington Post has written not one but two editorials demanding that entitlement reform be included the mix. The first piece, two weeks ago, was unequivocal: "Any serious debt-reduction plan has to include revenue and defense cuts. But no serious one can exclude entitlements."
But it appears the President and his party are planning to kick the can down the road. Greg Sargent reported Tuesday that union leaders held a private meeting with the President. One attendee described the President's expectations as follows: "They expect taxes to go up on the wealthy and to protect Medicare and Medicaid benefits."
While the union bosses are apparently celebrating this good news, the Washington Post editorial board is sounding more and more like a Republican presidential candidate:
Since 60 percent of the federal budget goes to entitlement programs such as Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security, there’s no way to achieve balance without slowing the rate of increase of those programs.
Mitt Romney couldn't have said it any better. But the Post goes even farther, quoting a promise of serious reform Obama made directly to the editorial board circa 2009:
"What we have done is kicked this can down the road. We are now at the end of the road and are not in a position to kick it any further,” he said then. “We have to signal seriousness in this by making sure some of the hard decisions are made under my watch, not someone else’s.”
