Rep. Grayson: Obama’s Entitlement Cuts Could Hurt Democrats In 2014

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Progressive Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL) said Wednesday that the proposed entitlement cuts in President Obama’s budget are a bad political strategy that could damage the Democratic Party’s electoral chances down the road. 

“It could end up dragging the entire party down,” Grayson said on a press call organized by the Progressive Change Campaign Committee. 

“The Republicans took a shot at convincing the public that Obamacare was in fact a cut in Medicare,” Grayson said, referencing Democratic losses in 2010. “Now, in essence, what’s happening is that the president is potentially handing the Republicans the same weapon to use against us in 2014 that they used so effectively and dishonestly against us in 2010. So I think that politically it’s a horrible move.”

“Now, with the president’s proposal, we face the threat that we will be stigmatized as the party that kind-of is for it and kind-of is against it, kind of depending on circumstances. Kind of, kind of, kind of,” Grayson said.

He predicted that Obama’s own poll numbers will drop over the next few weeks.

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