Krauthammer: Call Obama's bluff

Earlier this week in debt-ceiling talks that President Obama walked out on, he barked to House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, "Don't call my bluff."

Charles Krauthammer is one pundit who thinks the GOP should.

President Obama is demanding a big long-term budget deal. He won’t sign anything less, he warns, asking, "If not now, when?"

How about last December, when he ignored his own debt commission's recommendations? How about February, when he presented a budget that increases debt by $10 trillion over the next decade? How about April, when he sought a debt-ceiling increase with zero debt reduction attached?

All of a sudden he's a born-again budget balancer prepared to bravely take on his own party by making deep cuts in entitlements. Really? Name one. He’s been saying forever that he’s prepared to discuss, engage, converse about entitlement cuts. But never once has he publicly proposed a single structural change to any entitlement.

Hasn't the White House leaked that he's prepared to raise the Medicare age or change the cost-of-living calculation?

Meanwhile, during this morning's press conference, the president derided, again, "corporate jet owners' unnecessary tax breaks." How much money will that save? Would it even pay for the fuel and maintenance costs for Air Force One?

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