[GPSCC-chat] Obama has "Out-Bushed Bush" says Speier

[Brian Good]

Rep. Speier indulges in some blatant conspiracy-theorizing about Obama's tax-cut deal:
"This is a grand plan of starving Social Security so you can then privatize Social Security (and) seniors are on their own."
http://www.mercurynews.com/san-mateo-county/ci_16829980
"I'm very 
disappointed. He's out-Bushed Bush," she said of Obama, referring to 
President George W. Bush's failed attempt in 2005 to partially privatize
 Social Security.
Speier reserved some of her scorn for how 
Obama's plan was formulated, a process that left congressional Democrats
 out of the loop.  "The president made a tactical mistake by 
thinking he could negotiate with the minority members of the Senate and 
think that's good public policy," she said. "Last time I checked, we 
didn't have rings in our noses."
Obama's circumvention of 
Democrats led to a raucous meeting Thursday of the House Democratic 
Caucus, which emerged with a message of opposition to the president's 
plan.
"It was very animated," Speier said of the meeting. "It's about core values. And they have just been uprooted and tossed aside...."

Speier
 also thought it was rich that, following months of talk about bringing 
the national debt under control, the president and Republicans are 
planning to add nearly $1 trillion to the debt with money, she said, 
borrowed from China.
"You just declared bankruptcy, and you're going out on a shopping spree," she said.
 		 	   		  
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