I sure didn’t. Not this specifically, anyway. I knew of their talk of finding “pressure points” to bully through things they could not achieve legislatively, but not this, and not so soon into the session.
They need to pay back all the money that was stolen from SS fund, of course because their "God"Ronny took it, then it is ok
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Happy to see the voters of Kansas taking it in the shorts. I wonder if they’ll wise up.
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Don’t be foolish. For people to get mad at the GOP/Teatrolls for this, they would have to understand it. For them to understand it (a) the MSM would have to report honestly and openly about it and present them with all the facts, including an explanation of the GOP/Teatrolls changing the rule (not to mention the incoming CBO rule change requiring dynamic scoring, i.e., rigging the math) and (b) the Dems would have to not fail at messaging, while overcoming the MSM’s failure to do what I just said in “(a)”.
None of that will happen and all the vast majority of the public is gong to hear and understand is this:
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Massive cuts to SS are coming unless both parties sit down and compromise;
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The GOP has control over Congress, which is allowed (contrast the past 6 years when the Dems had the Senate, which is not allowed);
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Obama is threatening to veto the “fix” that would prevent 20% cuts in benefits and make them only 5% (or whatever the “compromise” poison pill is), so it’s his fault and he’s only playing politics if he refuses to just do as massa says;
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All the MSM will tell them is that they should be very scared that Obama might use the veto and should be very concerned, perhaps angry, that the Dems are not simply rolling over and exposing their throats to “do the fiscally responsible thing for the good of the country”; and
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The Dems are very upset, don’t know what to say about it and can’t even put up a unified front so who cares what they have to say anyway.
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My feeling is the GOP will try to assure seniors that this is necessary to protect their SS against fraud and abuse, just as they presented themselves as defenders of Medicare against those (cough cough Dems Obama) who wanted to hand it over to “those people.”
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Thanks, again, to TPM for reporting this…
On a different Congressional matter, I just have to say, after seeing the footage a few moments ago, that I was sickened/repulsed by Speaker Boehner attempting to plant a sideways, furtive kiss upon an unreceptive Nancy Pelosi when taking the gavel today.
I’d like Speaker Boehner, without dissolving into a blubbering mess, to explain just why he did this with a woman whose body language was screaming “No!”
Does Speaker Boehner frequently kiss male members of the other party at similar happy moments?
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Hey all you old white folk who voted for the Republicans in November. Bend over and grab your ankles if you can, if not just bend over____The GOP wants to say, “Thank yew’ for your vote!”
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But but but – Obama wants seniors to eat cat food!
Honestly, if any firebagger tries to accuse Obama of wanting to cut SS benefits…
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Hey you old Republican stalwarts and Bagger lemmings. They are NOT coming after your guns and bibles…They ARE coming after your medicare and social security…and “they” are Republicans YOU put in office.
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Yup. “Grab your socks, and I’ll drive you home.”
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Look at their targets.
First they went after the unemployed.
In the Cromnibus, they went after pensions.
Now they’re going after disability which a lot of people in hard hit areas took when they lost their unemployment.
Next, it’s Social Security after they drive a wedge blaming folks on disability for cuts in benefits.
And of course, they’ll be going after the poor all along.
What a bunch of heroes.
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Prosperity is right around the corner for Kansas. They just aren’t fucking that chicken clapping hard enough.
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“Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group, of course, that believes that you can do these things. Among them are a few Texas oil millionaires, and an occasional politician or businessman from other areas. Their number is negligible and they are stupid.”
___Dwight Eisenhower, November 8, 1954
As this Puggie House and Senate begins, inevitably, to overreach (They can’t help themselves; they’re Republicans.) they will learn that lesson. One only hopes they don’t cause too much damage in the interval with their scorched earth policies before they can be removed.
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" One only hopes they don’t cause too much damage in the interval with their scorched earth policies before they can be removed. "
I hope so. The President is the only person we have standing between us and them.
Most state governments are also solidly Republican as well.
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It’s neither left nor right… It’s us…It’s too bad that the majority of the population doesn’t give a shit about our country… Just 36.4 percent of the voting-eligible population voted in the last election…
Hell, In my state, New York’s turnout was an even more shameful 28.8 percent…
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Sorry, I’m human. But I am not among the most foolish of my species.
Everything else in your rejoinder strikes me as a complaint about telecommunications monopolies and the ugly grip of propaganda. If so I agree.
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Hey those 36% here you go,let the word get out on this.
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Of course they did. Anyone surprised at this?
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“What a bunch of heroes.”
Yep, bravely standing up to the Big Disabled lobby!
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This should be good considering that most Disability recipients vote Republican. Akin to the voucher bullshit. Blowback a’comin.
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