The White House and its spokesperson are not obliged to reveal their plans to push back on the Rs proposals, and especially not to TPM. All will be revealed, but not just yet.
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Scare the hell out of old white repubs. They need it big time. They are so hateful and selfish.
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Emoprog is a term used by centrist Democrats to divide the party and keep it from succeeding.
Conversely, progressive Democrats use the term Obamabot for the same purpose.
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Emoprogs are generally very left Democrats who insist on purity, and itâs mostly used along side obamabot. Where have you been? Somewhere other than cyberspace, maybe a gin jointâŚ
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[quote] âDoing so prevents a deep and abrupt cut in benefits for vulnerable
people with disabilities, including many who are nearing retirement age
and have paid into Social Security for many years,â the spokesperson
said. [/quote] I see their plan: Instead of a future âabruptâ change, theyâll make it a slow, painful, more severe, permanent cut over the next year. Rather than fix the issue of lack of revenue because their rich owners donât pay taxes.
Then immediately enact a new $400Billion âtax cutâ for their rich owners to make up for the new âsavingsâ.
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Save it for dessert, maybe.
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He was never going to reach a terrible grand bargain with Boehner. The possibility did not exist because every bargain he proposed required Republicans to buy into the idea that tax increases can solve revenue problems, a worthy goal that was impossible of achievement. If he made a mistake, it was believing that demonstrating his willingness to go outside his own and the partyâs comfort zone in the face of the other sideâs intransigence could possibly change the MSMâs narrative in the slightest degree or make it willing to stop pretending that the GOP isnât in the hands of deranged extremists.
He certainly made some mistakes. I do not contend otherwise. Falling for the ridiculous Democratic apparatchik CW that a midterm defeat means you must try to triangulate and engaging in the âbelt-tighteningâ rhetoric in 2011 was a strategic mistake. It was a missed opportunity to shift the debate to one between austerity dogma and Keynesianism, though though the rage-fest on the left induced by its failure to notice that it was all rhetoric and symbolic gestures made the mistake more rather than less damaging.
But an awful lot of the leftâs suspicion and angst seems to be fueled by purely symbolic, and often merely perceived, slights and things they considered already done because they were sure he was going to do them even though they never actually happened.
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Exactly.
We should all get ready to hear about how the rules allow Republicans to block and filibuster ever single piece of legislation the Dems thought about bringing to the Senate floor, but somehow those same rules do not allow the Dems to block anything whatsoever the GOP wants to do.
I mean, they really, really would like to block for us, but just isnât in the rules⌠These guys like like rats, and they use the GOP as foils, allowing them âforce throughâ what the Dems really wanted all along anyway.
Itâs like the years between 2001 and through 2008 never happened with the Republicans! You know when the Repubs under Gunga Din Bush put everything on the credit card!
I say let them pass every antisocial measure they can and then run on them in '16!
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On another note - which one has the darker skin?
Iâm in no position to cast stones here, having fully embraced the "Obot: and âemoprogâ nomenclature and constantly participating in the food fights.
But speaking of these two, has anyone here seen the non-judgmental everybodyâs fee-feeâs are pweshus version of these two in the modern Highlights for Children? Yeesh. How the hell are we supposed to teach kids not to be sociopathic CEOâs when they grow up if Goofus can only be shown being a bit thoughtless rather than being portrayed as the bullying, grabby self-centered dick he was when I was a kid?
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Seems the TEA BAGS are getting what the asked for.
I know a lot of people who thought Goofus was a role model.
GOP would never agree.
The parodies are hilarious to me.
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All I can is thank you old white people for giving us this nightmare GOP congress. If I didnât know people who genuinely need disability payments I would say this is what old people deserve, even though I am old myself. I just donât understand the mentality of white working class males who vote republican even though it harms their own lives and the lives of their family members.
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Would that were so, but Iâd guess thatâs why theyâre doing this now â itâs precisely the kind of bold dick move you make right at the start of a congressional election cycle, knowing that it will all be ancient history 18 months from now, when you can just feign surprise and mouth some soothing platitudes about how Democrats are always trying to scare seniors with ridiculous fear-mongering on Social Security and Medicare, etc.
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Actually, âcentristâ and âcorporatistâ are the words progressives use for that purpose.
Good griefâŚjust write the checks.
Let THEM explain why they are no good.
All it takes is guts.
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