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In the discussion thread: OK: common wisdom is (once again): OMFG!!111!! Obama CAVES!!!!! [View all]

Response to SomethingFishy (Reply #33)

Thu Dec 20, 2012, 09:57 PM

cliffordu (29,423 posts)

49. He's not bluffing with people's lives.

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He's letting the Repubs out themselves and then he lets them twist in the wind.

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70 replies	Author	Time	Post
OK: common wisdom is (once again): OMFG!!111!! Obama CAVES!!!!! [View all]	cliffordu	Dec 2012	OP
We've seen this before	Warpy	Dec 2012	#1
I live on SS and a small veterans pension.	cliffordu	Dec 2012	#2
Oh, yeah, and I'm just as gleeful about going over it	Warpy	Dec 2012	#4
Exactly right.	cliffordu	Dec 2012	#6
They always have.	janx	Dec 2012	#25
"The Five-sided Rathole.."	Volaris	Dec 2012	#13
That sure is a jewel amids all this slop. thankyou, Warpy!	Whisp	Dec 2012	#14
"Five-sided rathole" ROFLMAO!!!	Odin2005	Dec 2012	#22
Thanks for your	Cha	Dec 2012	#28
Food stamps are exempted from the sequestration measures embedded in the 2011 Budget Control Act, if	coalition_unwilling	Dec 2012	#52
I hope you are right. My livelihood and that of many of my friends are on the line.	JDPriestly	Dec 2012	#3
A beer. Always a good idea. N/T	HubertHeaver	Dec 2012	#5
That's exactly right.	cliffordu	Dec 2012	#7
I have to believe there is more to it than we know	Skittles	Dec 2012	#8
I'm telling ya -	cliffordu	Dec 2012	#10
Thanks, cliff. It won't be the End of the World afterall. n/t	Whisp	Dec 2012	#16
I agree ...	1StrongBlackMan	Dec 2012	#34
Frankly he's done the impossible with	Skidmore	Dec 2012	#35
Thank you! Oh, and I'm alcohol-and lactose intolerant, so a cup of Oolong tea	BlueCaliDem	Dec 2012	#9
We got Oolong on tap. No problem.	cliffordu	Dec 2012	#11
Woohoo! Oolong on tap!	BlueCaliDem	Dec 2012	#24
Hey, BlueCaliDem.. I have the same	Cha	Dec 2012	#30
Hey Cha . . . what's Kukicha Tea?	BlueCaliDem	Dec 2012	#60
Hey Tiger.. Kombucha is sold at all those Calif health stores and supermarkets	Cha	Dec 2012	#67
K&R for a great post	Champion Jack	Dec 2012	#12
so your theory is the president lied and that's just fine with you?	bowens43	Dec 2012	#15
LOL...	cliffordu	Dec 2012	#18
You just figured out that politicians lie? LOL!	Odin2005	Dec 2012	#23
ROFL	snooper2	Dec 2012	#39
no, he lied to the pugs. we knew who he was lying to.	Whisp	Dec 2012	#57
Why are we freaking out so much over possible proposals	Proud Liberal Dem	Dec 2012	#17
Because people watch too much TV. n/t	janx	Dec 2012	#26
I'm glad that we don't have Cable TV news in my house	Proud Liberal Dem	Dec 2012	#47
Exactly, he knows the Teabaggers will never allow anying except complete capitulation.	Odin2005	Dec 2012	#19
Thanks for some rational thinking. -nt	CakeGrrl	Dec 2012	#20
Thank you.	NYC Liberal	Dec 2012	#21
Funny because even Krugman got that old sick feeling over the "trail balloon"	abelenkpe	Dec 2012	#27
AS I said, he could offer ANYTHING and the r's won't	cliffordu	Dec 2012	#29
Right, because it's	Cha	Dec 2012	#31
Nope. Not chess.	cliffordu	Dec 2012	#70
So he's bluffing?	SomethingFishy	Dec 2012	#33
He's not bluffing with people's lives.	cliffordu	Dec 2012	#49
Actually, Krugman was not sure whether he agreed with the proposal or not.	JoePhilly	Dec 2012	#53
Yep - you just wrote a better OP than the one I posted originally.	cliffordu	Dec 2012	#63
I'll say this for Obama	DJ13	Dec 2012	#32
Your posts makes no sense. If Obama knows his SS proposal is DOA, why even bother to make it?	MotherPetrie	Dec 2012	#36
LOL...People who buy Obama's bullshit never make sense.	forestpath	Dec 2012	#37
To make Boehner T. Bagger look like an even bigger arsewipe	riqster	Dec 2012	#40
Do you HONESTLY think that is Obama's MO? I sure don't.	MotherPetrie	Dec 2012	#43
It isn't the way I would do it	riqster	Dec 2012	#45
POLITICS.	cliffordu	Dec 2012	#64
Obama tried his best to sell SS and Medicare down the river. He won't rest until he does.	forestpath	Dec 2012	#38
Why, Bless your heart!	cliffordu	Dec 2012	#62
I wonder if President Obama isn't having a bit of fun with this. Listen....	wandy	Dec 2012	#41
Well, I'm sure glad Obama is having fun with this. People who depend on SS sure as fuck aren't.	MotherPetrie	Dec 2012	#44
I live on SS and a small Veteran's pension.	cliffordu	Dec 2012	#65
Scotch in my case	riqster	Dec 2012	#42
Keeeeee- RISTE!!!.	cliffordu	Dec 2012	#66
Recommended. A BLT & milk sounds good right about now. Anyone who's been paying attention....	Tarheel_Dem	Dec 2012	#46
Boom go the dynomite.	cliffordu	Dec 2012	#48
If you want to see how badly the President has screwed the Republicans tomorrow tune into	grantcart	Dec 2012	#50
You, my friend, predicted all of this.	cliffordu	Dec 2012	#51
Doesn't it all dovetail pretty well with the development of Obamacare too? I'm amazed at	patrice	Dec 2012	#56
I learned everything I know about politics from this chilly grantcart motherfucker.	cliffordu	Dec 2012	#68
This may help a little - a VERY interesting read for wide-angle perspective from a profesional:	patrice	Dec 2012	#54
Yup.	graham4anything	Dec 2012	#55
LOL	Scurrilous	Dec 2012	#58
Not the fucking 10 dimension chess shit again! LOL!	Logical	Dec 2012	#59
So, to him, the elderly's ability to eat, is a gambling chip in negotiations?	grahamhgreen	Dec 2012	#61
Keep watching. I'll expect big humilities down the road from the panic peeps.	cliffordu	Dec 2012	#69

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