If they really do think he won’t pay an enormous political price for doing what GW Bush couldn’t–cutting Social Security. These guys ran a pretty good campaign, but that is all.
He will in fact, have shot himself and the Democratic party in the foot, as well as inflicting yet more pain on the working people of this country. It is stupid, cowardly, completely unnecessary and immoral.
It may not be much of a second term after all.