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In reply to the discussion: Senator Tom Harkin: No Deal Is Better Than The Deal Being Negotiated [View all]iemitsu
(3,888 posts)33. If Obama is stupid enough to think Americans will forgive him for
favoring the rich at the expense of workers and the national budget, that's fine for him. Senate Democrats better be smarter than that. Our party has not been is such a good position, in decades, to make America a better place for its citizens and the leader of our party is going to throw it all away.
Its insane.
Even the bank teller was complaining this morning about Obama's plans to sacrifice older American's security in order to allow the rich to keep what they have stolen from us. The bank teller!
Happy new year.
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Senator Tom Harkin: No Deal Is Better Than The Deal Being Negotiated [View all]
Report1212
Dec 2012
OP
I am not seeing the reason to be outrage. No cuts to SS or Medicare and some tax increases on rich
stevenleser
Dec 2012
#2
What the OP says is contradictory on that point. It says taxes on the rich are being raised to 39.6%
stevenleser
Dec 2012
#5
No, chain CPI would have been an abject surrender. No tax increases on the wealthy would have been
stevenleser
Dec 2012
#18
OK, so I barely earned a (on edit, small) fraction of it (in my best years), but . . . .
JDPriestly
Dec 2012
#55
Sources are saying that an extension of unemployment benefits will be a part of this deal.
totodeinhere
Dec 2012
#51
Does anyone know if the president has even met with the progressive caucus about this?
Doctor_J
Dec 2012
#40
we need to start over and have the American people start calling the shots
No Compromise
Dec 2012
#43
I think it more likely that a Republican such as Rand Paul or Mike Lee might stop it.
totodeinhere
Dec 2012
#52
That's why politicians invented back rooms and "closed door" meetings.
Tierra_y_Libertad
Dec 2012
#57