From Reuters (h/t Marcy Wheeler):
Joe Biden group to tackle Medicare and Medicaid: aideThe article goes on to list Medicare and Medicaid as "major sticking points" in the attempt to give politicians "political cover" for raising the debt ceiling.
Vice President Joe Biden and top lawmakers will examine government-run health plans on Tuesday as they try to work out a deal to raise the United States' borrowing authority, a congressional aide said.
Everyone but Obama has NY-26 figured out, it seems — Democrats won a House seat in a conservative NY congressional district solely because of voter discontent over the GOP plan to cut/kill Medicare. So the White House decides it's time to talk about cutting Medicare.
Maybe the President has different goals than we hope he has. Hope ... that's so 2008. Time to look forward, not back. On to 2012.
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