President takes a pass til next election

With President Obama's latest budget-cutting suggestion he seems to have taken the easy and resigned way out: He's putting forth ideas he already has in the past, taking on hard-core Republican antitax positions, but not really putting forth the answer to our problems. He is not fixing entitlements longterm. He is making campaign moves.

This, in my opinion, is the president resigning himself to not solving serious problems in the remainder of his term. He's given up. But he's hoping to point out the insanity going on in the Republican Party and win another election.

And he's giving Congress a chance to tackle the harder issues.

But he won't take full blame for whatever they come up with.