By: scott

@geg6: What I’ve been reading is newspaper reports from multiple sources since last summer saying that the WH is willing to contemplate cuts to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid as part of a Grand Bargain if the Republicans are willing to make the great concession of slightly higher marginal tax rates. If they’ve just been doing this to play footsie with the Villagers only to prove them wrong, I will be mightily reassured. But until that happens, given the 9 zillion times the press has reported how much Obama lusts after a Grand Bargain for his legacy, I’m not holding my breath.