toward the left to get more done? i think when you see the issues of gun control, really start to move. you re going to see a lot of those folks in moderates in both the house and the senate going to be a little squeamish about moving forward on some of these issues. folk even in the senate. you have moderate democratic senators from alaska, from arkansas, from louisiana, from north carolina, who are a little nervous about embracing the full extent of the president s gun control package or even a narrow portion of it. on those issues, it will be difficult. on the immigration issue it will be difficult. when we start talking about the pathway to citizenship for the nation s 11 million illegal immigran immigrants, when that starts moving forward, that s something the president will have to monitor closely. if he does get some republican buy-in like on immigration, that will help give some of those moderate democrats coverage. i think the flip side is that the idea of obama moving far
that we need a grand bargain, that s a whole other discussion whether we really do need a grand bargain. if we accept that idea, obama has actually put on paper proposals for entitlement reform. he put on paper in the run up to sequester this whole thing called cpi. it is a benefits reduction to social security. when you look back to 2011 with the whole debt sealing drama, they were talking about raising the medicare eligibility age. what is it that republicans are for him to say that he hasn t said yet or put on paper that he hasn t put on paper yet? those changes are not nearly as far as things that are included in the ryan budget. which will be unveiled tomorrow. that would include things that would change the way this medicare has dwelt folks 55 and un. are they looking for, i mean, if the bottom line for republicans is the privatization, basically the privatization, the voucherization of medicare,