Cat Food Commission No Dog’s Breakfast for Liberals: Ezra Klein
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June 23 (Bloomberg) -- Liberals rejoiced when PresidentBarack Obama dismissed his fiscal commission with a perfunctorypat on the back. They had taken to calling it “the cat foodcommission” in honor of its proposed cuts to Social Security andMedicare. They wanted Obama to go public, give his trademarkspeeches, make the pro-government case that they hoped wouldbreak the anti-government wave.
Conservatives, meanwhile, were outraged. RepublicanRepresentative Paul Ryan blasted the president for havingignored the commission’s recommendations -- never mind that Ryanhad served on the commission himself and voted against its finalrecommendations.