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CTyankee

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10. Obama has no choice, IMO, than to expose the republicans arguments as specious.

Reply to KharmaTrain (Reply #8)

Wed Dec 12, 2012, 10:25 AM

Dec 2012

For one thing he has already made adjustments in Medicare that really save money. And that is provable.

Then, it is back in the republicans court to come out and say OUT LOUD that their REAL objective is to take down "big government programs" because they don't like them. Show the American people that the republicans are doing this on purely ideological grounds and point out that the endgame is the destruction of Medicare, NOT saving Medicare!

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Can someone help me on the question of the value of "compromise"? [View all] CTyankee Dec 2012 OP

I think you meant "raise" the eligibility age.... Sekhmets Daughter Dec 2012 #1

thanks, made the change... CTyankee Dec 2012 #4

Yep....that's what I said. Sekhmets Daughter Dec 2012 #5

Yes, you did...I'm not quite awake yet (obviously)... CTyankee Dec 2012 #6

I am reminded of that Sekhmets Daughter Dec 2012 #22

Compromise replaces principle in DC. It is a way to do what you know is wrong Bluenorthwest Dec 2012 #2

The value, in this case, LWolf Dec 2012 #3

Compromise in and of itself is not valuable rock Dec 2012 #7

Yeah, altho a Hitler comparison is never a good example, but you are right. CTyankee Dec 2012 #9

Hitler comparisons always seem to me to be the best for stark contrast rock Dec 2012 #19

So What Do You Put On The Table?? KharmaTrain Dec 2012 #8

Obama has no choice, IMO, than to expose the republicans arguments as specious. CTyankee Dec 2012 #10

Still... KharmaTrain Dec 2012 #12

I'll give them hell and will use every possible tool, no matter how dubious to go around them. TheKentuckian Dec 2012 #15

Noble...However... KharmaTrain Dec 2012 #18

No shut down, Constitutional crisis, if we must. TheKentuckian Dec 2012 #25

I dispense medication in Ontario. Our Rx drug costs are regulated.. nenagh Dec 2012 #13

That Is Part Of The Savings Plan... KharmaTrain Dec 2012 #16

See above nenagh Dec 2012 #11

I don't have many repub friends. One that I have is such an ideologue that he would agree CTyankee Dec 2012 #14

It is so difficult...there is a frightening aspect regarding how brain function must have been.. nenagh Dec 2012 #20

The word should be capitulation. 99Forever Dec 2012 #17

There seems to be different definitions of compromise depending on whom you speak to Proud Liberal Dem Dec 2012 #21

I have to laugh, too, when I hear that. One day last week Joe Scarborough was complaining about CTyankee Dec 2012 #23

Obama can never do anything right by them Proud Liberal Dem Dec 2012 #24