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Live-Blogging the Budget Speech: Faux Moderation

| @tobincommentary 04.13.2011 - 2:30 PM

After spending the bulk of his speech playing the demagogue by insisting that soaking the rich can eliminate the deficit, the president is posing as the moderates by claiming he occupies the middle ground in between conservatives who oppose any tax cuts and liberals who oppose any cuts in entitlements. But liberals have nothing to worry about in his plan that eschews reform of entitlements. So long as his rhetoric concentrates on portraying his opponents as kicking sick grandmothers to the curb, the notion of his being a moderate, let alone a uniter, is absurd.

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