I mentioned this morning that the president’s budget, to be released on April 10, will likely be the occasion for major public campaigns from various directions focused on whatever, if anything, it includes on the toxic subject of “entitlement reform.” Not being a Wall Street Journal subscriber, I missed today’s news story there today reporting internal White House discussions on this subject. But at Crooks & Liars, Susie Madrak has raised the alarm and called on progressives to let Obama know this isn’t acceptable.

Interestingly, Madrak places more emphasis on the tiny concessions Republicans are, at the very best, willing to make in exchange for “entitlement reform,” rather than the inherent inviolability of Social Security and Medicare. But it’s unclear whether that will be the prevailing progressive line as April 10 approaches.

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Ed Kilgore is a political columnist for New York and managing editor at the Democratic Strategist website. He was a contributing writer at the Washington Monthly from January 2012 until November 2015, and was the principal contributor to the Political Animal blog.