Saying there is no alternative between decimating Social Security the way the Republicans want to do, and chipping away at it the way that Obama prefers.
Is she kidding?
On the one hand, her duplicity is shocking, even for a pol, on the other, her political maladroitness is just as startling. This is a woman who was born into politics back in practically the ward heeler days. Seventy + plus years old, she enables the trap set by the Republicans, who long ago sized up a President, who quite apart from a decided sympathy to Republican ideology, is a political rube with little governing experience prior to the White House.
It’s interesting that each calamitous fail by Obama then becomes justification for the next fall-on-their swords move by the Dems. Obama screwed up the party so badly that we just don’t have any other choice!!
What Pelosi and, reportedly, Reid are doing amounts to political malpractice. The backlash from voters will be ferocious; perhaps only then will it be possible to do what should be done forthwith: remove both Reid and Pelosi from leadership positions.
And Obama should have been primary-ed.