The 1% con game in Mitch Daniels' speech

The republican STATE OF REPUBLICANS speech delivered by Mitch Daniels had a crafted veneer of seriousness in that he repeatedly called for making the very rich ineligible for certain entitlement benefits. (Tweety thought that was super serious.)

Good News: They recognize that the public relations situation is dire enough that they have to throw something to the wolves (aka The People)

Bad News: Consider what Governor Daniels was really saying. We cannot raise taxes on the job creators, but of course the rich should not get entitlement benefits they don't need.

Now consider what he was really, really, really saying: Mitt Romney makes $57,000 per day. Mitt is willing to give up his $2,366 per month social security check (that number is the maximum SS payout) as a show of reasonableness to avoid higher taxation of his large income, or even in exchange for massive new tax cuts... as long as the littles dependent on entitlement programs also suffer. Fair and balanced.

(Plus the republicans could then start calling social security a welfare program starting with the next election cycle)