Obama agenda: Budget dance  The AP on the president’s budget:
“President Barack Obama is sending Congress a $3.77 trillion
spending blueprint that seeks to achieve an elusive ‘‘grand
bargain’’ to tame runaway deficits by raising taxes further on
the wealthy and trimming popular benefit programs such as Social
Security. The president’s proposal being unveiled Wednesday
includes an additional $1.8 trillion in deficit reduction over
the next decade, bringing total deficit savings to $4.3
trillion, based on the administration’s calculations. It
projects that the deficit for the 2014 budget year, which begins
Oct. 1, would fall to $744 billion. That would be the lowest gap
between spending and revenue since 2008.”  Politico: “On
Wednesday, Senate Republicans will break bread with President
Barack Obama at the White House. On Tuesday, Bernie Sanders, the
most liberal member of the Senate Democratic caucus, was
standing outside the gates rebuking Obama for selling out
seniors. That jarring juxtaposition captures the