That’s what Rep. Alan Grayson, D-Fla., said in a press call today hosted by the Progressive Change Campaign Committee regarding the president’s new budget proposal.

The call, which also featured Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., was intended to be a warning to the administration to back away from the budget’s modest entitlement reforms. Grayson argued they could doom the party by undercutting its rhetoric on entitlements:

Based upon the budget the Republicans submitted, the [Paul] Ryan budget, it was pretty clear up until this point that the Republicans were the party in favor of cutting Social Security, cutting Medicare, cutting Medicaid, and the Democrats were the party against it. Now, with the president’s proposal, we face the threat that we will be stigmatized as the party that kind-of is for it and kind-of is against it, kind of depending on circumstances. Kind of, kind of, kind of…

Asked by the Daily Beast’s Lloyd Grove if they thought the president’s budget was an effort at Bill Clinton-style triangulation, Ellison conceded that maybe that was the case – as he put it: “ the president is going to the center, counting on us to be loud on the left” — but that liberals like himself had no choice but to oppose it anyway.

Grayson added that “this is not some Sistah Souljah Moment, okay?” He argued: