Social Security is on the rack. The man about to turn the screws is Barack Obama. This should not be a surprise. The indictment of Social Security began many months ago when Obama cited 'entitlement' programs as a prime source of fiscal imbalance. Then, this past winter he sent to Congress a proposal that would have established a special commission mandated to make recommendations on so-called 'reform' of Social Security and Medicare that the legislature would be required to vote up or down as a package. This in the midst of the debate on health care. Congressional leaders demurred. Obama responded almost immediately by creating just such a commission stacked with avowed foes of keeping Social Security as we have known it. When that commission offers its predictable dire forecast to justify a drastic scaling back of the program, Obama will back it.
If there were any lingering doubts about the man's underlying social values and political perspective, they were violently uprooted by Robert Gibbs diatribe against progressives -- using language and imagery sure to warm the hearts of the most retrograde Tea Partier. Apparently, the White House is seething that some progressives are not bowing low enough in their obeisance to His Highness -- and a few recalcitrants aren't even genuflecting.
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