Which Obama Will Show Up to Deliver Today's Budget Speech?

[ProudDad]

There are wildly conflicting reports about what kind of speech President Obama will give when he addresses the nation on the budget fight today. Which Obama will show up this afternoon? Will it be the progressive who ran and won in 2008 by shining a bright light on the way excessive corporate power distorts our economic policies, promising an approach that, in his own words, “begins with one word that's on everyone's mind, and it's easy to spell: J-O-B-S"? Or will it be the president whose hearty embrace of Washington's deficit hysteria has made the Right's calls for drastic and painful budget cuts appear “bipartisan,” and therefore ultimately sensible?

According to the Washington Post, Obama will use his speech to essentially endorse the conclusions of the Simpson-Bowles fiscal commission, also known as the "Catfood Commission." That would be a call for cutting taxes on corporations and the wealthy and raising them on the middle class, trimming “entitlement” spending – raising the retirement age for Social Security in addition to unspecified future “reforms” to Medicare – slashing the federal workforce, cutting public workers' pensions, cutting subsidized student loans and eliminating a slew of tax deductions targeted at the middle class.

http://www.alternet.org/story/150591/which_obama_will_show_up_to_deliver_today%27s_budget_speech?akid=6823.152900.hhKKy1&rd=1&t=15


We shall see, we shall see...

[Whisp]

1. the one that hates your guts and your children's guts.

that evildoer y'all hate.

:D

[young but wise]

4. LMAO.

[daa]

2. The republican one nt

[AllyCat]

3. The one with the R after his name.

[Clio the Leo]

5. NOT your imaginary one. ;-) nt

[jefferson_dem]

6. The real one...

Not the fictional bogeyman caricature many lug around with them...everywhere they go.

[State the Obvious]

7. The one who actually IS the President. You know.....the SMART one. nt

[BklnDem75]

8. The one you hate

100% guaranteed.

[Shiver]

13. That would be "The President".

It won't matter "which one" to him.

[BklnDem75]

14. He never disappoints, that's for sure

[Citizen Worker]

9. The corporate DLC democrat.

[Name removed]

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[Sheepshank]

10. I bet I know who you may be hoping for.......

[vaberella]

12. The one that will unrec thist post. n/t