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In reply to the discussion: Senator Tom Harkin: No Deal Is Better Than The Deal Being Negotiated [View all]Doctor_J
(36,392 posts)36. Why does Harkin have to read about it in the paper?
Here is what is bugging me about Obama's conduct in this matter
HARKIN: Mr. President, I was disturbed to read in The Washington Post this morning that some kind of agreements are being made here.
Dear Mr. President
TALK TO THE FUCKING DEMS ABOUT THIS. 70 MILLION OF US VOTED FOR YOU. WHY ARE YOU NEGOTIATING WITH BONER AND DISCUSSING IT WITH THE POST??????????
It's going just about like the HC talks - lots of Big Insurance reps, no SP.
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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