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In reply to the discussion: Obama Tells Democrats They Must Be Open to Entitlement Changes [View all]Demo_Chris
(6,234 posts)49. Why did he fight for the GOP plan on healthcare reform?
ANSWER: That's what his employers want him to do.
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Screw that, it's time to reform campaign finance and top this idiotic, legalized bribery of our Pols
Dustlawyer
Mar 2013
#209
You're right. And this should also be done on the local level. Contact each Democratic mayor, etc.
AnotherMcIntosh
Mar 2013
#223
No, the best way to keep Social Security viable for the foreseeable future is to get our Living Wage
RC
Mar 2013
#74
Here is my grand bargain.....fuck with SS and I stay home for the 2014 elections.
yourout
Mar 2013
#11
That's my inclination, too, EXCEPT that'd leave the field wide open for more damage
Honeycombe8
Mar 2013
#33
And so will we: this is the GOP's only hope to hold the House in 2014 and maybe
indepat
Mar 2013
#43
Our grand children will be much more concerned about how to try surviving a Venus-lite climate
Amonester
Mar 2013
#173
If I have to choose between Dems slashing SS or Republicans slashing SS I would rather have the....
yourout
Mar 2013
#73
Bullshit. The faster Leftists understand that the most powerful branch of our gov't is CONGRESS
BlueCaliDem
Mar 2013
#153
Get a fucking clue. President Obama can have a decree that he'd like pink unicorns for every
BlueCaliDem
Mar 2013
#157
Stop lying, read again who was telling who to get ready to fuck with entitlements
Dragonfli
Mar 2013
#159
The Senate refused to change the filibuster rule, so everything this president does is
BlueCaliDem
Mar 2013
#161
You still deny the reports? All of them? He really is the one making the offers you know
Dragonfli
Mar 2013
#163
yes I have, I really think this one needs help, I don't say that sarcastically
Dragonfli
Mar 2013
#242
Um . . . just to refresh your memory . . . Obama NEVER campaigned on single-payer.
BlueCaliDem
Mar 2013
#247
If you do not want a grand bargain you better vote in 2014 and win the House back
krawhitham
Mar 2013
#68
He had the House for two years and pissed it away making nice with his Repub and WallSt overlords.
Lionessa
Mar 2013
#149
1.1 million more votes were cast for Democratic House candidates than for Republican candidates
markpkessinger
Mar 2013
#276
Same here. But I doubt Obama cares. Seems like he WANTS to destroy the Democratic Party.
forestpath
Mar 2013
#98
I'm open to changing the entitlements that the oil corporations are receiving.
olddad56
Mar 2013
#13
Let the caving to Republican principles begin again... UGH! F', Obama, you ran on the opposite!
Lionessa
Mar 2013
#14
He's been dead to me ever since he didn't put a moratorium on banks over robo-signing.
Lionessa
Mar 2013
#20
Why wrong? Because they're inconvenient truths to the fringe and their enablers?
BlueCaliDem
Mar 2013
#258
Hey Manny, ^why didn't you give Obama a congress he could work with,^ how long
Dragonfli
Mar 2013
#170
They are awaiting new talking points JoePhil and sid and the rest of the gang
Dragonfli
Mar 2013
#40
I'm waiting for ..."Obama figures that if he is for it then the repukes will fight against it. n/t
L0oniX
Mar 2013
#124
That's a popular one, variation 38 of the multi-dimensional chess apologetic, truly a classic
Dragonfli
Mar 2013
#152
Now they'll just disappear, or tell you it's all YOUR fault because you didn't "push him".
Marr
Mar 2013
#94
one might ask, "why is a democratic president arguing for the republican position"? nt
msongs
Mar 2013
#35
One might also ask, "if a democratic president argues the GOP view, is he a Democrat"
Dragonfli
Mar 2013
#50
Well that doesn't hold water since he pissed away his very own two years of effective Dem Congress.
Lionessa
Mar 2013
#169
Nothing we little folk do will have an effect on him anymore, just those up for election.
madfloridian
Mar 2013
#39
I totally agree with Pres Obama. We must change our social safety network.
rhett o rick
Mar 2013
#45
The fact that you cant believe it reveals the huge problem we have in America.
rhett o rick
Mar 2013
#89
Wall Street and our corporate overlords have spoken, and the Word for the poor is
Fire Walk With Me
Mar 2013
#53
I, for one, am pleased that we're making common-sense tough choices about
MannyGoldstein
Mar 2013
#55
The part that the House AND Senate is still solidly under Republican control.
BlueCaliDem
Mar 2013
#145
Well, there's no nice guy Obama if we are to believe the words that have come straight from his
BlueCaliDem
Mar 2013
#206
Yes. It is. A Conservative Dem is a Dem like Manchin or Landrieu or Ben Nelson.
BlueCaliDem
Mar 2013
#259
The public secret in our government is, Congress, not the White House, is the most powerful
BlueCaliDem
Mar 2013
#262
Bullshit. Congress, not the Judicial branch, is the most powerful branch of gov't, and the fact
BlueCaliDem
Mar 2013
#281
100% true. And it couldn't have been clearer than when they voted *against*
BlueCaliDem
Mar 2013
#251
Democrats control the Senate, which is why Reid is called 'Majority Leader'.
Bluenorthwest
Mar 2013
#201
Bullshit. Republicans effectively control the Senate - through filibustering.
BlueCaliDem
Mar 2013
#203
No--if Obama doesn't give up this DLC shit, progressive Dems should triangulate him
yurbud
Mar 2013
#86
we have been getting screwed in the arse for years and now they want to screw us even more?
indivisibleman
Mar 2013
#113
Naw. I'm no "rightist". I'm a DEMOCRAT who supports our DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENT.
BlueCaliDem
Mar 2013
#154
"Only the extremes on the Left are." No, the right also has them, they are just hiding under
cstanleytech
Mar 2013
#217
The unrealistic Leftists like you and others infesting this Democratic Party site
BlueCaliDem
Mar 2013
#202
The article is using direct quotes. The reporter is not distorting, or passing along rumors.
Demit
Mar 2013
#197
If Obama had public ally taken this position on entitlements prior to his nomination, we might
ladjf
Mar 2013
#177
I dont think this is new information... he has made similar statements in the past.
DCBob
Mar 2013
#188
I don't see any post saying they are surprised. Disgusted is a better word for the mood of the
Bluenorthwest
Mar 2013
#205
start with their salaries and benefits - make them have to take on the same healthcare everyone else
2Design
Mar 2013
#238
If millions are still be spent in Iraq and Afghanistan then there is no deal
Rosa Luxemburg
Mar 2013
#243
Your position is somewhat inconsistent - if you oppose 100% off all, then you oppose Rand Paul's
24601
Mar 2013
#288
NO Way...I have paid into SS and Medicare for 40 years...Entitlement my ass
ELI BOY 1950
Mar 2013
#278
We do, we just dont have them in majority control over congress nor are they the majority
cstanleytech
Mar 2013
#292