The Hill News

After much anticipation that the new centrist â€" President Obama â€" would unveil substantial spending cuts or targets in his State of the Union address tonight, we learn he will ignore the recommendations of his own debt commission that labored for months to come up with a plan to put our fiscal house in order. Nonpartisan budget analysts who believe the president must lead on deficit reduction are growing doubtful that a grand bargain is possible.

After liberals spent weeks working to pressure the White House on Social Security cuts, Obama has reportedly assured Democratic lawmakers he would not support his commission’s recommendations to raise the retirement age or make any other cuts to the program, according to The Washington Post. Backing off of raising the retirement age? And just where is this middle ground going to come from if President Obama is ruling out something like that?

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