July 15, 2011

Obama reverses course on entitlement reforms; MSM says nothing

The number of ways the Democrat-supporting Media can support their beloved causes is large indeed. Sometimes it's an outright fabrication ("Fake but accurate"). Other times it's failing to note a 180-degree policy reversal by a Democrat politician.

To see the latter in action, take a look at this glowing 2009 piece in the Obama-loving Time magazine, titled "Can Obama Actually Achieve Entitlement Reform?" To win votes from gullible middle-class whites, Obie often noted during the campaign that he was all for "entitlement reform." Here's Time's propaganda from 2009 (obv after he'd been elected but continuing the campaign promise of "reform, reform"):
Obama now plans to accomplish the impossible: reverse the trajectory of the political universe and make real progress on reforming Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security.
So, how'd all that "reforming" turn out, Obie? Get a lot of reforming done, didja? Did you, as one of Time's many fawning authors wrote, "reverse the trajectory of the political universe and make real progress on reforming Medicare, Medicaid and SS?

Of course no one over 25 will be surprised to learn that with Democrats controlling both senate and house, no entitlement reforms worthy of the term were enacted. In fact I'm not aware that any bills to do that were even introduced.

Now for the fun part: In the current fight over the debt "ceiling", Obama now says that as a matter of "our sacred trust with our seniors," he'll fight to prevent entitlement spending from being cut at all.

Whoa! I thought Time reported, just 2 years ago, that Obie was planning to "reverse the trajectory of the political universe," as Time breathlessly put it, by cutting (pardon, "reforming") entitlement spending. Now he's reversed course completely-- and no one in the MSM is calling him on it!

As Ace put it,
The media knows that America's solvency relies upon some reform to entitlement spending. But now comes a machine pol whom they love, love, love and suddenly they've reversed their position on whether entitlements need to be reformed.
And through our plane's windscreen, the fields below our plummeting craft grow larger ....

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