Jim Geraghty points out that, facing the defining problem of our generation, Obama stepped up to the podium for his State of the Union address and voted “present”:
Faced with the defining problem of our time, President Obama examined all of the options ranging from painful and unpopular to even more painful and even more unpopular, lifted his head, looked the American people in the eye and declared…
“Present.”
The 3 a.m. phone call arrived — who would have guessed it would be the CBO calling with the crisis? — and Obama is letting it go to voice mail. Either we reform entitlements now with some pain or we confront their collapse sometime in the not-too-distant future with much worse pain.
