There is no plan

The scribes at Politico - who must not have been paying attention - write "Deficit plan coming after speech." Uh, sure, sure it is. According to Politico, the White House plan will include "unpopular measures" like entitlement reform.

If Obama puts out a bona fide plan to pare back Medicare and Social Security, I may have to take back all the unflattering things I've written about him. But I doubt it: scaring Grandma in an election year is like crack to Democrats. There's no way they'll neutralize their favorite strategy ahead of 2012. Let's see this mythical plan.