The more taxes get cut, the more revenue is reduced, setting up an artificial reason to have to cut spending.  Nice how that works out, isn't it?

They've cut job training in the midst of high unemployment and they've cut housing and foreclosure counseling at a time when foreclosures and housing issues are a huge problem.

Does this lead anyone to think that Dems have any intention of drawing any lines, in the sand or anywhere else?

The fix is in.

And, from what I have read, Pelosi is seriously ticked off at Obama for completely leaving her and the House out of the "agreement" on this last continuing resolution.

The President is not quite as impotent as some would like you to think at times.

Under his administration he has fulfilled most of my worst fears about him. He has completely validated every red flag that he threw out there during his campaign and lackluster career as a senator.

He voted for FISA. He voted to extend the patriot act.
He fled other controversial votes.
He campaigned with Donnie McClurkin - a pathetic homophobe.
He lauded Leiberman's "intellect" and "heart" and urged Connecticut residents to have the "good sense" to reelect this unapologetic architect of the invasion of Iraq - whom he calls "Joe".
He had his intellectual equal, Rick Warren, appear at the inaugural spewing his crap upon us lest we think that we actually had any kind of stake in his upcoming administration.

He played liberals like a violin.

And he got his sorry keister elected.

His campaign got everyone to forget about torture, indefinite detention without charge or trial, the wars, the erosion of civil liberties, the idiotic war on drugs, the intrusion of religion into the political arena and the domination of wall street and the military-industrial complex on our legislature and our lives.

He has gotten done that which his benefactors hoped he would do for them.

But I would not say that this makes him potent.
I don't feel that he actually is trying hard to get anything done or exercising any power unless told to do so by those who actually are powerful.
His function, as I perceive it, is to not pose any kind of barrier to those in our country who would impose their will upon the rest of us.

He is letting the wealthy and powerful do whatever they like.
That's not impotence. But it isn't potent either.

The Gang of Six is attempting to put the December recommendations of the bipartisan fiscal commission into law. Social Security does not contribute to deficit spending since it draws benefits from a separate trust fund, but the fiscal commission sought to ward off a solvency crisis for Social Security after 2037 by raising the retirement age while reducing benefits. [...]

Including Social Security in the Gang of Six package appears to be a concession by Democrats made in exchange for agreement to raise some revenue by Republicans.

In addition to needlessly going after Social Security, the gang also reportedly intends to eliminate the home mortgage tax deduction. As Warner put it, "We are going to make everybody mad with our approach."
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SCHIEFFER: So that's where you would get the additional revenues, by eliminating deductions, not necessarily by raising taxes?

WARNER: We're not talking about raising taxes. Link