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He's dangling a brass ring in front of the GOP.

He's not "calling for cuts" ... he's saying ... "Ok, you want X, what will you give me for X?"

Every statement is highly conditional. He's says he's "willing to consider A, B, C", but not with out "x, y, z" in return.

And that's where so many on DU seem to get lost. If Obama wanted cuts to Social Security, he could have had them easily back in 2009. He could have made it part of stopping the collapse. And the American people would have done it willingly.

The GOP has been trying to create a collapse coupled with high debt and high deficits for exactly that reason, for decades. That's the perfect climate for selling SS cuts.

So again. The President has not been calling for cuts. If he were, there would be no need to create conditions, conditions that most of us know the GOP won't touch. He could have made such cuts happen a long time ago.

Going forward, the President and the Dems will remain "measured and reasonable" and the GOP will continue its slide into crazy land.

There will be no cuts. Its not happening.