Well, Can You Really Blame Him?

From the White House background briefing on the president's proposed Social Security reforms held the day of the president's State of the Union address (LINK).

REPORTER: You talked about the $664 billion for the near-term costs. There's been a lot of speculation in advance that it would be something like $2 trillion. Talk a little bit more about that. How do you square that?

SENIOR OFFICIAL: I don't want to say too much about it....