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This guy, Barack Hussein Obama, said unemployment would not get above 8.5% (eight point five percent) with that stimulus; since it did, he does not deserve re-election, with the failed policies he's driving. Us. Right into the ditch.
You're welcome.
Oh, and on the Debt Ceiling discussions happening tomorrow:
1) Senate Democrats (of the far-Left) tells BHO in no uncertain terms, NO CUTS...
“I have talked to some of my colleagues, including some that you might not expect, who say if [White House officials] bring to the Senate a piece of crap that comes down heavy on working families and children and the elderly and they expect me to matter-of-factly vote for it, they'll have another thing coming,” Sanders said. He added that he would filibuster such a deal.
“I do worry that the White House is misreading the Senate and taking things for granted,” Whitehouse said. “There has not been enough communication to alleviate that potential misreading.”
Sanders wants Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) to rule out any benefit cuts, as House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has done.
2) House Democrats (of the far-Left) tells BHO in no uncertain terms, NO CUTS...
Behind their leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), House Democrats are solidifying their resistance to including any entitlement cuts in a debt-ceiling package.
Pelosi met privately with President Obama and Vice President Biden Friday morning to lend the White House "a clear understanding of the terms for how we go forward," she told reporters afterwards.
At a closed Democratic Caucus meeting following the White House pow-wow, Pelosi was much less reserved when she relayed how she'd told Obama in no uncertain terms of the caucus' opposition to any cuts in Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid, according to a number of lawmakers who attended the gathering.
"The [caucus] cheered Pelosi when she said she was not going to back up, and that's the message she's delivering to the White House," said Rep. Emmanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.), the chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus.
"She was speaking for all of us," added Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.).
Obama stunned Democrats this week when he signaled an openness to Social Security and Medicare cuts
3) The Far-Left Nutroots Base (here, Firedoglake's Jane Hamsher) tells BHO in no uncertain terms, NO CUTS (you bastard!)...
What we’re watching is the death of the Democratic Party. Or, at least the Democratic Party as most of us have known it. The one that has taken its identity in the modern era from FDR and the New Deal, from Keynesianism and the social safety net. Despite any of its other shortcomings (and they are myriad), the Democratic Party has stood as a symbol for commitment to these principles. As recently as 2006, Democrats retook the House in a surprise wave election because the public feared that George Bush would destroy Social Security, and they trusted the Democrats over Republicans to secure it. Just like George Bush, Obama now wants to “save” Social Security….by giving those who want to burn it to the ground the the very thing they’ve wanted for decades.
Any member of any party who participates in this effort does not deserve, and should not get, the support of anyone who values Social Security and cares about its preservation. The amount of damage that the Democrats under Obama have been able to do has been immeasurable, by virtue of the fact that they are less awful that George Bush. But where George Bush failed, Obama will probably succeed.
Which means we’re watching another casualty here: Democracy. Or at least, the illusion that we live in a democratic society. The public, regardless of party, overwhelmingly opposes cuts to Social Security and Medicare. But elected officials of both parties are hell-bent on conspiring to bring the programs to an end. They seem to have come to grips with a fact that the public has not: their tenure in office depends on carrying out the wishes of oligarchical elites.
There is only one thing you can reasonably conclude as you watch the political theater that is transpiring: what the voting public thinks really isn’t all that important. And to the extent that it does matter, it can easily be channeled by those with sufficient money to pay the tab. Samuel Johnson said that patriotism was the last refuge of scoundrels, but in our modern era, that honor goes to tribalism. The list of horrors that people found intolerable when George Bush was in office, but are now blithely accepting because “Sarah Palin would be worse,” grows longer every day.
We’ll fight this, because it’s the right thing to do. We will probably lose. But we will make it as painful as possible for any politician from any party to participate in this wholesale looting of the public sphere, this “shock doctrine” for America. And maybe along the way we’ll get a vision of what comes next. Because what we believe in as Americans, and what we stand for, is not something the Democratic party represents any more.
Squeal, you white-headed little pig, squeal. For I lurves to hear you squeal.
And you thought Boherner was the stopping point for any compromise deal, didn't you?
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