Him endorsing PAYGO and the Democrats getting it passed will down the road lead to the Democrats avoiding a HUGE political issue of allowing the Bush tax cuts to expire. With establishing PAYGO, that means when the Republicans want to pass legislation to extend or make permanent the Bush tax cuts, they will first have to list everything they will cut from the budget. Then, the Democrats will attack the crap out of it obviously and be able to show what actually happens in one, precise way what Republican ideology and governance means.
Over the Bush years, they cut stuff randomly but it wasn’t a big enough ordeal to show what the ideology is all about. But they’d be forced to do a whole package of cuts, how many gazillions were the tax cuts anyway because I’m sure that would be a lot of cutting. And considering we’d hardly be able to pay for stuff as is, this will just be one huge massive, wtf?!!?!?! The Democrats will then be able to battle the tax and spender title as the Republicans will get beat down just as hard for cutting taxes for the rich and using that to cut social programs from the poor, with it being explicit and in writing.
Good move Obama and crew, do it after the stimulus but what about health care? How is that going to happen without massive spending I’m assuming.
Think of future Republican legislation to cut taxes for the rest of history with having to list what they’ll cut AND imagine them having to try to repeal PAYGO as that would be the most hypocritical position to their ideology. With PAYGO, their platform is exposed and will be shot down by the electorate.