Deriding the media's coverage of the budget, the president disputed the idea that the deficit commission's recommendations had been shelved, saying that "it still provides a framework for conversation." "You guys are pretty impatient," he told reporters. "The assumption is if it doesn't happen today, it's not going to happen."

I'd be happy if there were any signs of any plans to do it ever. But he insists he is not the one to make the first move: